Send Us Your Poetry: The Magpie Award Closes April 15th!

Only Two Weeks Left

Don’t let your chance at $500 pass you by! The 2022 Magpie Award closes Friday, April 15th.

First Prize is $500 and publication in Issue 36, Autumn 2022. And two runners-up will be awarded $50 each and publication.

The Magpie Award is for previously unpublished poems of up to 100 lines in length. Poetry that relies heavily on visual structure is eligible for prize money, but may be excluded from publication if the formatting is difficult to reproduce in print or eBook.

The entry fee is $25 for your first poem, $10 each subsequent poem. All entry fees include a 1-year digital subscription to Pulp Literature.

The winner and runners-up will be announced mid-May.

Enter now!

And to read a few of our past winners, pick up your copy of Issue 32, Summer 2021 or Issue 28, Summer 2020.

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Final Judge, Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Issue 28, ‘Man With Golden Helmet’) was the Surrey Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2018. She is the author of four books and six chapbooks. Her work has been adapted for opera and visual art. Her ground-breaking poetry book about the bombing of Air India Flight 182, children of air india, won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. Renée’s second book, The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them, edited with Wayde Compton, was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her book, Listening to the Bees, co-authored with Dr Mark Winston, won the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award for Environment/Ecology. Bramah and The Beggar Boy, published in 2021, is book one of THOT J BAP, Renée’s epic poetry-in-verse, and features Bramah, a time-travelling locksmith and her orphan-apprentice, The Beggar Boy. Order your copy here.