The Poet’s Billow offers three awards: The Atlantis Award for a single poem, the Pangaea Prize for a series of seven poems, and the Bermuda Triangle Prize for three poems on a theme.
We choose from these awards our nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.
Guidelines:
Our contest entries will be read blindly, your name and contact information should not appear on the poems themselves. For general submissions, you may have identifying information.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you send a message through Submittable that a poem needs to be withdrawn.
Multiple submissions are allowed with a paid submission fee for each set of three poems.
Please do not submit previously published work. We would like the first Serial Rights. After publication, all rights will revert back to the author.
Please submit all poems in one document
The Poet's Billow is open to general submissions for the first time!
Please, submit up to 3 unpublished poems in a single document.
We publish new and established writers and accept work with varying styles, themes, voices, and forms. At this time, we do not accept AI-generated work.
We encourage simultaneous submission. Please leave a note on Submittable if a poem needs to be withdrawn.
Multiple submissions are also accepted. A new Submittable entry will need to be completed for each submission.