Poets & Writers – September 2019

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GRANTS & AWARDS

CHELSEA CATHERINE

Southern Indiana Review

Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award

SEAN W. MURPHY

Southern Indiana Review

Mary C. Mohr Nonfiction Award

DAVID SOUTHWARD

Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm

Frost Farm Prize

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Iowa Review, Iowa Review Awards,

University of Iowa, 308 English-

Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242.

(319) 335-0462. Harry Stecopoulos, Editor

in Chief. [email protected]

http://www.iowareview.org

John Pollard Foundation

INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE

Hannah Sullivan of Oxford, England,

won the inaugural John Pollard Founda-

tion International Poetry Prize for Three

Poems (Faber & Faber, 2018). She re-

ceived €10,000 (approximately $11,400).

Harry Clifton, Tim Dooley, Aileen

Douglas, and Tom Walker judged. The

annual award is given for a debut poetry

collection published during the previous

year. (SEE DEADLINES.)

John Pollard Foundation, International

Poetry Prize, Trinity Oscar Wilde Center,

21 Westland Row, Trinity College Dublin,

Dublin 2, Ireland. Sophia Ní Sheoin,

Centre Senior Executive Officer.

[email protected]

http://www.tcd.ie/english/news-events/news-john

-pollard-foundation2020.php

R. O. Kwon judged. The annual award
is given for a story. The next deadline is
March 31, 2020.

Indiana Review, Indiana University,
Ballantine Hall 529, 1020 East Kirkwood
Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405.
[email protected]
http://www.indianareview.org/contests

Iowa Review

IOWA REVIEW AWARDS
Brian Sneeden of Mansfield Center,
Connecticut, won the 2019 Iowa Review
Award in poetry for his poems “Origins”
and “Seasons of Echoes.” Kiki Petrosino
judged. Chloe Wilson of Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, won the award in fiction for her
story “Tongue-Tied.” Rebecca Makkai
judged. Derby Maxwell of Los Angeles
won the award in creative nonfiction for
his essay “Tiny Firecrackers.” Roxane
Gay judged. The winners each received
$1,500 and publication in the Winter
2019 issue of Iowa Review. The annual
awards are given for works of poetry,
fiction, and creative nonfiction. The next
deadline is January 31, 2020.

The Yale Series of Younger Poets 2020 Competition

Yaleuniversity press YaleBooks.com

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warded since 1919, the Yale Younger Poetsprize is the

oldest annual literary award in the United States. Past

winners include Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich,

William Meredith, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, John

Hollander, James Tate, and Carolyn Forché. The current judge

for the series is Carl Phillips.

About the Competition

This contest champions the most promising new American

poets. The competition is now open to emerging poets,

regardless of age, who have not previously published a book

of poetry and who reside in the United States.

All poems must be original – translations are not accepted.

Writers who have had chapbooks of poetry printed in editions

of no more than 300 copies are eligible. Only one manuscript

may be submitted each year. Manuscripts submitted in

previous years may be resubmitted.

For detailed entry instructions, including the complete

competition rules and submission guidelines, please go to:

http://YoungerPoets.org