Tinderbox Poetry Journal Sponsors the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize and the Majda Gama Editors’ Prize
Deadline: August 31, 2024
Tinderbox is pleased to announce our 2024 poetry prizes, the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize and the Majda Gama Editors' Prize.
Tinderbox readers and editors will read submissions, 15 of which will be passed on to our judge for their final decision. The judge will select the winner of the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. In honor of Tinderbox's ten-year anniversary, this year's final judge is Jennifer Givhan, editor emeritus of Tinderbox Poetry Journal. The editors will select the Majda Gama Editors' Prize winner from the remaining finalists.
The winners of each prize will receive $500. The winners and all finalists will be published in our Winter Solstice issue in December.
- There are no limitations in form or content; we are interested in anything from traditional forms to free verse to lyric essay to flash fiction.
- No more than eight pages maximum per submission.
- The entry fee is $15 for three poems. For $20, you can opt to receive feedback on your submission.
Submit online via Submittable.
Our 2024 judge Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southern California border. Her full-length poetry collection Landscape with Headless Mama won the 2015 Pleiades Editors' Prize. Her second collection Protection Spell was chosen by Billy Collins for inclusion in the Miller Williams Poetry Series from University of Arkansas Press. Givhan received an NEA in poetry, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship, and a Latin@ Scholarship to The Frost Place. She's won poetry prizes from The Pinch Journal, The DASH Literary Journal, and The Blue Mesa Review. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College, her Master's from Cal State Fullerton, and her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2013, Best of the Net 2015, AGNI, POETRY, Boston Review, Southern Humanities Review, TriQuarterly, Kenyon Review, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and others. She teaches online at Western New Mexico University and The Poetry Barn, and lives with her family beside the Sleeping Sister volcanoes.
