The following are poetry contests. If you feel a contest should be listed here then please contact LitBrige and let us know!

• A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize
• Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize
• Akron Poetry Prize
• Andres Montoya Poetry
• Anhinga Prize
• Autumn House Press
• AWP Award Series
• Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes
• Barnard Poetry Prize
• Barrow Street Book Contest
• Beatrice Hawley Poetry Prize
• Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
• Bob Kaufman Book Prize
• Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition
• Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prize
• Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize
• Cider Press Review Book Award
• Claremont Review Contest
• Cleveland State University First Book Award
• Cleveland State University Open Book Competition
• Colorado Prize for Poetry
• Crab Orchard First Book Award
• Crab Orchard Open Competition
• Del Sol Press Poetry Prize
• Donald Justice Poetry Prize
• Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize
• Dorset Prize
• Elixer Press Poetry Book Awards
• Fence Modern Poets Series
• Gerald Cable Book Award
• Green Rose Prize
• Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
• John Ciardi Prize
• Juniper Prize for Poetry
• Kore First Book Award for Poetry
• Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize
• Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize
• Main Street Rag’s Annual Poetry Book Award
• Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Prize
• Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
• May Swenson Poetry Award
• New Criterion Poetry Prize
• New Issues Poetry Prize
• Orange Monkey Publishing
• Pearl Poetry Prize
• Perugia Press Prize
• Poets Out Loud
• Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize
• Sawtooth Poetry Prize
• Slope Editions Book Prize
• Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
• Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest
• Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
• Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Contest
• The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
• The APR/Honickman First Book Prize
• The Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
• The Hudson Prize
• The Idaho Prize
• The Iowa Poetry Prize
• The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• The Kinereth Gensler Award
• The Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize
• The National Poetry Series
• The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
• The Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
• The Prairie Schooner Book Prize
• The Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize
• Three Candles Open and First Book Prize
• Transcontinental Poetry Award
• Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
• Walt Whitman Award
• Washington Prize
• White Pine Press Poetry Prize
• X.J. Kennedy Poetry Priz
• Yale Series of Younger Poets