Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize!
Final Judge: Kim Addonizio
Deadline: July 31st, 11:59 p.m. (PDT)
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Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize
Final Judge: Kim Addonizio
Submission deadline is July 31st, 2024 11:59 p.m. (PDT)
Three prizes: $1,000, $500, $250
Letterpress broadside of winning poem: Gary Young, Greenhouse Review Press.
Winners & Finalists published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.
Finalists announced September 15th, winners October 1st.Publication-launch and prize celebration: Tuesday, December 10th at 7p.m. @ Works/San Jose, community art and performance center, 38 S. 2nd Street, San José.
Submit up to three original unpublished poems at submittable.com.
One $15 submission fee good for all 3 poems; upload all poems in one file, please. Each poem must fit onto one 8.5 x 11 page. Yes, simultaneous submissions accepted. No author name on text or in file name.
Co-sponsors: Poetry Center San José & Red Wheelbarrow.
Kim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also has two word/music CDS: Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, the companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest books are a poetry collection Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Her recent book of poems, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, was published by W.W. Norton (March 2021). Exit Opera: Poems will appear from Norton in September, 2024.