Announcing our Pushcart Prize nominations!
For work published in 2024:
Poetry:
“Elegy for Whistling”
Alan Swope
“Bracken”
LP
Prose:
“A Candle in the Sun”
Wess Mongo Jolley
“Forgive the Silence”
Susan Bloch
“Toast, Jell-O, Tea”
Cindy Rosmus
“Killing Time”
Robin Wilkey Gregory
(to be published late December)
Congrats and best wishes to the nominees!
15th Annual Poetry Open
Win $1,000 and publication for a single poem. As its name implies, this competition is open to anyone (writing in English) and is open to any style of poetry, any topic. Deadline: January 2. Entry fee: $10 for three poems.
Read our very first Poetry Open winner, from 2011: "The Lazarus Dream" by David Mohan of Dublin. Read additional winners and enter here.