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Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize – $25,000 for the best book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year James Laughlin Award – $5,000 to recognize and support a poet's second book Walt Whitman Award – first-book publication, $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center for an American who has not yet ...
"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]
The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. [1] It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets.
The Kingsley Tufts award is known to be one of the world's most lucrative poetry prizes. Its counterpart, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, is given to a poet who demonstrates genuine promise in their first book of published poetry, with an attached purse of $10,000.
Mythopoeic Awards – awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis – since 1971; Prix Tour-Apollo Award – since 1972; John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel – since 1973; John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction – since 1973
The Forward Prizes for Poetry consist of three awards: The Forward Prize for Best Collection, £10,000; The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, £5,000; The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in memory of Michael Donaghy, £1,000; The Prizes are run by the Forward Arts Foundation, which is also responsible for National Poetry Day. The ...
It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.