Awards

Chapbook Fellowships

Launched in 2003, the PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences.


DEADLINE

October 1-December 31, 2024

Online Entry

Submit Entry

PRIZE

$1,000

and publication


Judges

Monica Ferrell

C. Dale Young


THE PSA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP

Open to any U.S. citizen or anyone currently living within the U. S. who has not published a full-length poetry collection.


SUBMISSION DETAILS & INSTRUCTIONS

  • The entry fee is $14.
  • Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. This page count includes: title page, table of contents, and poems.
  • Poems must be typed.
  • No illustrations may be included.
  • Multiple submissions are not accepted.
  • Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted.
  • Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
  • We cannot accept corrections after submission.
  • Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their families are ineligible.
  • All submissions are judged anonymously.

SUBMITTING INFORMATION

You can upload two documents:

1) Acknowledgments, if any of the poems have been previously published.

2) Your manuscript of poems which should include the title page, table of contents, and poems.

  • Personal identification cannot appear anywhere in the manuscript document, including in the file name.

Four Quartets Prize

The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.

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Chapbook Fellowships

Launched in 2003, the PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences.

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Frost & Shelley Awards

The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award recognize lifetime and mid-career achievement in poetry. By nomination only.

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