The Longlist Has Landed
It’s officially time to announce the longlist for the 2026 Magpie Award for Poetry!
Congratulations to all of the longlisted poets, listed alphabetically by first name below. Those with a number beside their name have multiple poems under consideration for this year’s shortlist!
The 2026 Magpie Award For Poetry Longlist
Angela Kenyon
Angela Rebrec (3)
Anna Eastland (3)
Bliss Goldstein
Callista Markotich
Deniz Soykurumcetin
Doris Corcese (2)
Dustin He
Elio Zarrillo
Heather Simeney MacLeod
Jennifer Getsinger
Joan Leotta
Jude Neale
Kelli Anderson
Ken Long
Laurel Johnson
Marri Champie
Maxwell O’Toole
Mitchell Toews
Peter Norman (2)
Rame Ibrahim
Rhonda Collis
Shifa Maqba
Stephanie Kast
Congratulations to these authors and their thirty longlisted poems, and thank you to all of the authors who entered the Magpie Award for Poetry this year!
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The 2026 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize officially opens TODAY!
For writers of short forms looking for contest glory of their own, be sure to enter this year’s Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize. Send us your best short fiction of 1000 words or less for a chance at the $300 top prize and publication in Pulp Literature Issue 53, Winter 2027.
For the full contest guidelines, and to submit your work, check out this page.
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