SUBMISSIONS OPEN: FEBRUARY 1 - March 22
Judge: Shane McCrae
Entries for the C.D. Wright Emerging Poets Prize should be 3-5 poems, with a total of no more than 6 pages. Entrants may submit more than once, but each new entry must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.

Contest Guidelines:

  • Open to writers who haven’t yet published a full-length poetry book, and who have no book forthcoming before May 1, 2023. Writers with chapbooks are allowed. Writers with a self-published book with a print run under 300 copies are allowed.

  • All work will be considered for inclusion in the print magazine.

  • Only previously unpublished work will be considered.

  • The contest will be judged blindly, so please DO NOT include your cover letter, your name, or any contact information in your uploaded document.

  • Submit your work as a single .doc, or .docx file.

  • Close friends of the judge, as well as anyone recently affiliated with the University of Arkansas, which includes those who have studied or worked there within the past 4 years, are ineligible. 

  • Entry includes one issue of the Arkansas International 

  • Current subscribers can enter for free!

 
 

Shane McCrae, 2023 Judge

Shane McCrae is the author of eight books of poetry, including Cain Named the Animal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), a finalist for the Forward Prize; Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Rilke Prize; In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015), winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award.

McCrae is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, the 2022 Michael Marks Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

 
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