Words and Wonders
The 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry alights today! And we can’t wait to see which treasures you’ll send to our literary nest.
Earlybirds, catch your worm! Enter before March 15th and save. During the first two weeks of the contest submission period, pay only $20 for your first poem, and $10 for each subsequent poem.
To read last year’s high flyers, pick up your copy of Issue 36, Autumn 2022. Or get a peek at the poems by winners Cara Waterfall, here, and Kevin Spenst, here.
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
~Rita Dove
More on the Magpies
The Prize:
First Prize: $500 and publication in Issue 40, Autumn 2023
Runners up (2): $50 each and publication in Issue 40, Autumn 2023
The Details:
The Magpie Award is for previously unpublished poems of up to 100 lines in length.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 Deal:
Entry fee: $25 1st poem, $10 each subsequent poem
Earlybird fee (before March 15th): $20 1st poem, $10 each subsequent poem
All entry fees include a 1-year digital subscription to Pulp Literature.
The Dates:
Contest Closes: April 15th
Winner Announced: mid-May
The Judge:
We are delighted to welcome back Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Surrey Poet Laureate, 2015–2018) as final judge for the Magpie Award. Renée is the author of four books and six chapbooks. Her sci-fi epic in verse, Bramah and the Beggar Boy, was published in 2021. Her new book, Bramah’s Quest, is forthcoming in Spring 2023. Meanwhile, read two of Renée’s short stories in the pages of Pulp Literature: ‘Told under the Linden Tree’, in Issue 37, and ‘Man with Golden Helmet’, in Issue 28. Visit Renée on Twitter.
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