Deadline: September 23, 2024
Entry fee: $20
About the competition
Palette Poetry invites innovative work from emerging poets for The 2024 Rising Poet Prize. This contest is open to poets who have not yet published a full-length collection at the time of submission. We look forward to celebrating new and exciting work, so please send us your best poems. The first-place winning poet will be awarded $3,000, publication, and an interview in Palette Poetry. The second-place and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200, respectively, as well as publication. The top ten finalists will be selected by Palette editors, and Guest Judge Morgan Parker will choose the three winners from among the ten finalists.
Morgan Parker is the author of five books, most recently the essay collection, You Get What You Pay For. Previous titles include Who Put This Song On?, a young adult novel; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, and Magical Negro, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsperson” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.” She lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Shirley.
Competition guideline
- For this prize, we are only accepting unpublished work from new and emerging poets: poets without a full-length collection published at the time of submission. Poets with no publication history are especially encouraged to submit. Poets with only chapbooks published are also eligible. Poets with self-published full-length collections, however, are ineligible.
- Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the poem is largely written in English.
- DO NOT INCLUDE your name or identifying information in the document OR submission title box.
- We are only accepting unpublished work. If your poem has been published elsewhere, even on a blog or on social media, it is not eligible.
- We accept simultaneous submissions—just please send us a note if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.
- Read the whole guideline and submit your entry here.
