Deadline: January 31
Prize: $500, publication of chapbook and 50 gorgeous copies
Reading fee: $20
Submit: 16-36 pages of poetry
Electronic submissions only. Submit here: https://graysonbooks.submittable.com/submit
Simultaneous submissions are permissible if we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Multiple submissions are also permitted; a fee must accompany each entry.
Including acknowledgments of previously published poems is acceptable but not required. When a manuscript is chosen for publication, we will request acknowledgments.
We do not accept work that was created—entirely or partially—with AI software.
This year's judge, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura, is a Colombian-born writer, translator, and editor the author of All Were Limones, a winner of the Hillary Tham Capital Collection competition, forthcoming by The Word Works in March 2025. Her honors include a Connecticut Office of the Arts Emerging Recognition Award, a John K. Walsh Residency Fellowship at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellowship at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry. She is an Editor of Slapering Hol Press.