Deadline: March 31, 2025
Entry fee: $15
About the competition
The Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for poems of not more than 70 lines.
No subject or style restrictions: all poems welcome. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world.
2-4 Winners are announced who are published and share in the Prize money. Up to twenty writers are shortlisted. All entries are considered for publication, submission to the Pushcart Prize, and for further anthologies.
The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness.
Competition guideline
- The top 2-4 winning entries of the Prize for Poetry are declared the Winners, and share equally in the Prize pool of $1000 USD.
- To recognize the abilities of the writers who do not place as a Winner, 10-20 entries are Shortlisted.
- Winning entries are published by The Letter Review online, and in our Winners Anthology.
- All entries are considered for publication.
- Winning entries are also frequently submitted to further prestigious anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize.
- Winners and Shortlisted entries are celebrated on our mailing list, social media channels (FB 37,000 members), at our website (50,000 monthly visitors), and our Subreddit (11K).
- Read the whole guideline and submit your poetry here.
