Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest
Deadline: August 26, 2014
Judge: Amaud Jamaul Johnson
First prize: $1,000
The Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Translations are not eligible for this contest. Poets submitting work for consideration may be published authors or writers without prior book or journal publications.
Multiple TQ editors will consider each entry and select 20 finalists. From the finalists, contest judge Amaud Jamaul Johnson will select a winning poem and three runners-up. At no time will our judge have any identifying information about the authors.
Results will be posted online in the fifth issue of Tupelo Quarterly, on October 15, 2014. For complete guidelines, please click here.