CRAB CREEK REVIEW POETRY PRIZE IS OPEN!
The entry period for the 2023 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize begins on February 15th with entries accepted until May 15, 2023. A $500 prize will be awarded for the winning poem. This year's judge is Nicky Beer. All entries considered for publication. Winner and finalists will appear in Crab Creek Review.
The entry fee is $16 per submission. Multiple submissions are allowed, but each batch must be submitted separately, with its own entry fee. This submission fee funds the print production of each issue.
About the Judge
Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon, 2015), were both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Poetry Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she is a poetry editor for Copper Nickel.
Submission Guidelines:
- Please do not include your name in your submission. All submissions should be kept anonymous.
- Only original, previously unpublished work will be considered.
- Title your document with your name and the genre. (i.e.: GwendolynBrooks_Poetry)
- Include a cover letter in the provided space in the Submittable form (not in the document). Include your mailing address, social media handle, email and phone number, a 50-word bio, and the titles of the pieces you are submitting.
- Should you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration, please indicate this in your cover letter and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
- Send your work as a SINGLE attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF); docx preferred.
- Please submit no more than one batch of poems or one prose piece per reading period.
- We aim for a response time of 8 weeks, but please do not query your submission status unless 3 months have passed.
- If you need to update us on the status of your simultaneous submission, please do so by adding a note to your submission, in Submittable.
- The entry period for the 2023 Crab Creek Review Poetry P begins on February 15th with entries accepted until May 15, 2023. A $500 prize will be awarded for the winning poem. This year's judge is Nicky Beer. All entries considered for publication. Winner and finalists will appear in Crab Creek Review.
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