poetry by the sea book awards

The seventh season for the Poetry by the Sea Book Awards, given to the best poetry book published the previous year, is open as of January 5th, 2025. The category is Best Book of 2024, and the winner will be awarded a prize of $500.

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Details:

1. Authors or publishers may nominate books. Book must have been published in 2024. Note: Books may contain individual translated poems but books in translation are not eligible.

2. Books must be submitted by pdf, using the Submittable link below. Please attach a pdf of the book and one of the cover to the Submittable form. [Note: Contest submissions are now fully digital which is a CHANGE from previous years.]

3. The entry fee of $50 is payable through Submittable [You do not need a Paypal account to enter]. Entries that are not accompanied by the appropriate payment will NOT be considered.

4. Deadline: March 1st 2025

2025 Final Judge – Chelsea Woodard

Chelsea Woodard’s third collection, At the Lepidopterist’s House, won the 2022 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and was published by Southern Indiana Review Press in 2023. She is also the author of Solitary Bee (Measure Press, 2016) and Vellum (Able Muse Press, 2014). Chelsea is the recipient of the 2024 Peter Heinegg Literary Award, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a residency at Vermont Studio Center. She lives and teaches in New Hampshire.

Thank you to the final judges, as well as to the poets who enter their fine work and continue to make this award possible.

2024 Jane Satterfield
2023 Allison Joseph
2022 Ned Balbo
2021 Barbara Crooker
2020 Matt W. Miller
2019 Panel: Dan Brown, Moira Egan, Allison Joseph, Joshua Mehigan, Marilyn Taylor 

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