2024 Poetry Society of America Awards

Submission Details & Instructions

• Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free.
• The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15.
• Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere, including in the file name.
• Only one entry per award.
• You cannot submit the same poem to more than one award.
  The exception: Individual poems submitted to the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award or Robert H. Winner Award may be submitted to another PSA award.
• The submission must not have been previously published or accepted for publication.
  The exception: Individual poems submitted to the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and the Robert Winner Award may have been published.
• Simultaneous submissions are fine; if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication, please withdraw the submission.
• Submissions written by more than one author are not eligible.
• Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
• A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
• We cannot accept corrections after submission.
• Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
• All submissions are judged anonymously.
  

Notification

• We cannot confirm receipt over phone or email.
• We cannot accept any corrections or revisions to submissions.
• The winners will be announced in late spring.