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The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
The prize is judged anonymously by a single poet. Past judges include Hannah Sullivan (2024), [1] Nobel Laureate Louise Glück (2023), [2] Warsan Shire (2022), [3] Jacob Polley (2019), [4] Claudia Rankine, Marie Howe, Deborah Landau, Daljit Nagra, Leontia Flynn, Billy Collins, and Nick Laird. The competition closes annually on the 31st of December.
Montreal International Poetry Prize ($20,000 prize for one poem) National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000) Arvon International Poetry Prize (biennial) Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry) Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000)
The words are lenses as winners of this month’s Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest capture images of the world around them. ... She describes poetry as a great source where you can connect with ...
"the largest in the world for a competition of this kind". [46] 39,358 £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award: Short story United Kingdom English "The world's richest short story prize" (single short story). [47] 38,081 CA$50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize: Poetry Canada Any Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem. [48]
In addition to the cash prizes, two winners get published by a university press. The Crab Orchard Review, a biannual journal of creative works published by the Department of English of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Southern Illinois University Press organize the competition, which gives out $3,500 to two winners. Winners must be ...
The award was established in 1975. In a New York Times opinion piece from 1985, the novelist John Barth noted that 1475 manuscripts had been entered into one of the Whitman Award competitions, which exceeded the number of subscribers to some poetry journals. [8]
They are given to poets for their collections of poetry written in the English language, by a citizen or legal resident alien of the United States. [1] The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is a $100,000 prize presented to a mid-career, emerging poet who already possesses an established body of work.