Deadline: May 4, 2025
Entry fee: $20
About the competition
Event Details
Fronter Poetry is open to new and emerging writers (poets with no more than one full-length work of poetry previously published or forthcoming at the time of submission).
Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English. Inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the poem is primarily written in English.
The first place winner will receive $2,000 and publication. Second- and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively, as well as publication.
Editorial Feedback Option:
This option costs $59 and will provide you with two pages of detailed and actionable feedback on a poem of your choice from your packet, including suggestions for future submissions.
Competition guideline
- Submissions are open to new and emerging writers (for this contest, we define this as poets with no more than one full-length work of poetry previously published or forthcoming at the time of submission).
- Send up to three poems per submission, for a total of no more than five pages. We have no aesthetic or formal requirements and consider all styles of poetry. Each new submission requires a $20 reading fee.
- As part of our dedication to the pursuit of a more inclusive publishing world, we offer a free submission window for poets from historically marginalized groups (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled community, et cetera) at the beginning of the contest until our cap of fifty. This category is now closed.
- Do not include any identifying information in the body of your document.
- Please submit unpublished poems only.
- We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Read the whole guideline and submit your poem here.
