26 Sunday Dec 2021
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12 Friday Nov 2021
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The Poet’s Billow is happy to announce that Ana Pugatch’s poem “Dissolution” was chosen as the winner of the 2020 Atlantis Award. Below is our full list of finalist and semifinalist. We also published two runner-ups whose work is amazing, so please be sure to check those out.
Currently, we are accepting submissions for the 2021 Atlantis Award and the 2022 Bermuda Triangle Prize.
Ana Pugatch is a Harvard graduate who taught English in China and Thailand for several years. She recently completed her MFA at George Mason University, where she was awarded the ’20-’21 Poetry Heritage Fellowship. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Review, Pinesong, and Literary Shanghai. She lives in Raleigh with her partner and son.
Winner:
Ana Pugatch – “Dissolution”
Runner-Ups:
Amanda Dettmann – “This is Not a Phase” & “Happiness Unrushed”
Jacqueline Yang – “November before the surge” & “Instant Noodle”
Dawn Terpstra – “Letter to Further Isolation” and “Oxbow
Finalists:
Eileen Malone – “They Call Me Noncompliant”
Christopher Vaughan – “Amid the Climate Crises, I Address My Twins, at a Year Old”
Nkasiobi Mbonu – “A Sun Flowers Choice”
Pea Kay – “The Birth of a Galaxy”
Lee Alexander – “Bem Vinda a Florianopolis”
Semifinalist:
Jude Bradley
Chelsea Carey
Volomi Jeanne
Michelle Kogan
Chan Krisna
Chime Lama
Chi Kyu Lee
Jerry Lieblich
Karen Loeb
Mammatli Molefi
Diana Pinckney
Ellen Reynard
Natalie Voltz
22 Friday Oct 2021
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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. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 30th*
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
08 Thursday Jul 2021
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Congratulations to our Poetry Mentor, Michelle Bonczek Evory, who won a 2021 Independent Publishers Book Award for her collection The Ghost of Lost Animals. The book was published last year by Gunpowder Press when it won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.
Michelle is available for one-on-one mentoring sessions and manuscript reviews of poetry, nonfiction, & fiction. The Poet’s Billow provides one-on-one study with published, working writers and professors who will cater lessons, assignments, and readings to you individually. Mentoring integrates today’s technology with traditional immersions in reading, writing, and discussion to allow students and mentors to develop close relationships and conduct deep discussions about the art of poetry and the act of writing it. Specific foci and scheduling are designed to fit your schedule and needs and can range from one-time meetings to extended, regular interactions.
01 Wednesday Apr 2020
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Hello Poets! The Poet’s Billow is accepting submissions for the 2020 Pangaea Prize.
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.
You can view our guidelines here.
Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read our previous winners and finalists.
If you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.
18 Friday Aug 2017
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Rob Carney is a finalist for the 2017 Pangaea Prize. There are three poems here that are going to knock your socks off even though you have shoes on. Read them and enjoy.
Rob Carney is the author of four previous books of poems, most recently 88 Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2015), which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, as well as the forthcoming collection The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press). In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared previously in The Poet’s Billow (2015), as well as Cave Wall, Columbia Journal, Sugar House Review, and many others, and he writes a regularly featured series called “Old Roads, New Stories” for Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. He lives in Salt Lake City.
04 Friday Mar 2016
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The winner of the 2015 Atlantis Award is Alison Palmer for her poem “Flight.” We are thrilled to publish it along with a selection of the finalists from the contest. We really hope you read these wonderful poems and that they inspire you in some way: to write, to sing, to live your life fully.
The winning poem along with a selection of the finalists can be read here; and the full list of finalists and semi-finalists is below.
The Poet’s Billow is also now welcoming submissions to the 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.
Winner: Alison Palmer
Finalists:
Garrett Flatt
Jen Karetnick
Katharyn Howd Machan
Julie Prentice
Diana Roffman
Teresa Sutton
Semi-Finalists:
M.K. Brake
Michael Collins
Colette Gill
Colleen Harris-Keith
Heather Keyser
Kieran MacNaughton
Adrian S. Potter
Jessica Temple
Martin Willitts, Jr
24 Saturday Oct 2015
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The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200 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. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication. *The contest deadline has been extended to November 1st*
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
01 Saturday Aug 2015
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Congratulations to Greg Emilio for his group of poems titled “Bon Vivants Hereafter” which won the 2015 Pangaea Prize. What an awesome set of poems! Selected by Mike Dockins.
Greg Emilio is a Southern California native whose poetry and essays have appeared in Miramar, Pleiades, Spillway, andWorld Literature Today, among others. He’s currently pursuing his PhD in English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He also fancies himself a decent bartender.
28 Tuesday Jul 2015
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The Poet’s Billow is currently accepting submissions for the Atlantis Award.
The Atlantis Award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200 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. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
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