09 Sunday Oct 2022
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Registration for the Wednesday Workshop is open! Simply sign up using Calendly. Just click the calendar below. Or click here to Learn More.
11 Sunday Sep 2022
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Now Accepting Submissions to the 2022 Atlantis Award
The Atlantis Award is given for a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow website. The winning poem will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.
Deadline October 1st, 2022
27 Friday May 2022
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There are only a few more days to submit to the Pangaea Poetry Prize: Deadline: May 31. The winner poet will receive publication, a cash prize, and be offered an interview to be published on The Poet’s Billow website.
The Pangaea Prize is awarded for the best series of poems ranging between two and up to seven poems in a group. Judging will be based on poems as individual entities as well as their cohesiveness – that can be in terms of common themes, images, narrative or however else you would like to group your poems. All poems must be previously unpublished. There are no restrictions to length or style.
The winning poet receives $100 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will also be considered for publication.
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read our previous winners and finalists.
Visit the Pangaea Prize Contest Page for more information on how to submit.
28 Thursday Apr 2022
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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that Kieran Dieter has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Pangaea Prize; and Martha Brenckle has been selected as the runner-up. The winning poems can be read on the 2021 Pangaea Prize announcement page.
The Poet’s Billow is now welcoming submissions to the 2022 Bermuda Triangle Prize—Deadline April 30; and to the 2022 Pangaea Prize—Deadline May 1. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
About our Winner & Runner-Up:
Kieran Dieter is a writer, artist, and educator. Their poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Atticus Review, FIELD, Juked, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. They were a finalist for the Italo Calvino Prize and Third Coast’s Jaimy Gordon Prize in Fiction. They live with their family in Providence, RI.
Martha Catherine Brenckle is a Professor at the University of Central Florida where she teaches First-year Writing and Rhetorical Theory. She writes poetry and fiction and has published most recently in The Sea Letter, Clockhouse Review, Broken Bridge Review, Burningword Literary Magazine, Bryant Literary Review and Poets Billow among others. In 2000, she won the Central Florida United Arts Award for Poetry. Her first novel, Street Angel (2006) and was nominated for a Lambda Award and a Triangle Award and was a Finalist for Fence Magazine’s 2007 Best GLBT Novel Award. In 2019, Finishing Line Press published her poetry chapbook, Hard Letters and Folded Wings. Currently, Martha serves as the Treasurer for the GLBTQ+ Museum of Central Florida.
07 Monday Mar 2022
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Do you want friendly honest feedback on your poetry without having to commit hundreds of dollars on month long seminars, travel, or packed zoom meetings where all the participants windows are the size of dimes? Then join the intimate, small-group sessions of our Wednesday Workshops. No need to commit to a month of sessions! Join us week to week at your convenience.
Wednesday Workshop is a meeting held weekly where participants share one poem which receives feedback from other workshop participants and a workshop leader who is an award winner poet. These are small groups, so space is limited.
Time: Every Wednesday @ 12:00pm PST/ 3:00pm EST
Length: 1 hour Session
Size: 1-5 participants
Cost: $35
How to Register:
Send an email with the date of a workshop to reserve your space to Thepoetsbillow[at]gmail[dot]com or through our contact page
Poetry will be uploaded in google classroom during the workshop. You do not need a google ID or gmail account to join.
13 Thursday Jan 2022
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The Poet’s Billow has selected Emily Light, Becca Rae Rose, and Michael Samra as the winners of 2021 Bermuda Triangle Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2021 Bermuda Triangle announcement page.
We also named a number of semifinalists. This was a difficult list to make and hard decisions were made on every level of judging. We receive so many great poems and don’t have the resources to publish them all.
The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the 2022 Bermuda Triangle Prize and the Pangaea Prize. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
See our Special Offer for January Only!!!
26 Sunday Dec 2021
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Let The Poet’s Billow help you reach your writing, revision, and publishing goals in the New Year! For more details click this link.
26 Friday Nov 2021
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There are only a few days left to submit to the Atlantis Award. Deadline is November 30. Submit up to 3 poems. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $300 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Finalists will be considered for publication.
28 Wednesday Jul 2021
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Contributor, Sunni Brown Wilkinson finalist of the 2013 Atlantis Award, was interviewed for the release of an award-winning chapbook The Ache and the Wing, Editorial Intern Nikki Lyssy sat with Wilkinson to discuss the relationship between hope and loss, the many different selves we live, and honoring grief through remembrance. Click here for the full interview.
Download your copy of The Ache and the Wing for free here!
In this excerpt Sunni has this to say about the beginning of the collection:
Sunni Brown Wilkinson: In the opening poem (“Rodeo”), something in the speaker is broken. I don’t say what outright, but it becomes apparent in the poems directly following: we had just lost our youngest son. I did feel like my body was literally broken. I was recovering from my fourth C-section, I was 40, and the baby we had anxiously been awaiting was stillborn. I’d never known how physically crippling grief could be, and I barely had the strength to get through each day. And in that opening poem, there actually aren’t any birds, just a hummingbird hawk moth, which looks like the tiniest bird but is in fact an insect. So in that first poem, I would say there’s just heaviness and struggle, no wingspan, very little to lift the body toward lightness.
Sunni Brown Wilkinson‘s poetry can be found in Western Humanities Review, Sugar House Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, SWWIM, Crab Orchard Review and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press 2019, finalist for the Hudson Prize) and The Ache and the Wing (winner of Sundress’s 2020 Chapbook Prize). She also won New Ohio Review’s NORward Poetry Prize and the 2020 Joy Harjo Prize from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. She teaches at Weber State University and lives in northern Utah with her husband and three sons.
17 Saturday Jul 2021
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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that Marlo Starr has been selected as the winner of the 2020 Pangaea Prize. The winning poems along with a selection of the finalists can be read on the 2020 Pangaea Prize announcement page.
We also named a number of semifinalists. This was a difficult list to make and hard decisions were made on every level of judging. We receive so many great poems and don’t have the resources to publish them all.
The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the Atlantis Award. If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
About our Winner:
Marlo Starr writes and teaches in Baltimore. She holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and a PhD in English from Emory University. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in BOAAT, The Threepenny Review, Berfrois, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and elsewhere.
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