POETRY CONTEST SUBMISSIONS

2024 Poetry Contest Information:

Reading Period: Nov. 1st – Dec. 31st, 2023.

  Judge: April Ossmann

April Ossmann is the author of We (Red Hen Press, 2025) and Event Boundaries, a Vermont Book Award finalist, and Anxious Music (both from Four Way Books) and has published poetry widely in journals and anthologies. Her poetry awards include a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and a Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. She has published essays including Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript (Poets & Writers, March/April 2011), and a biography/critical study of poet Lynda Hull in American Writers Supplement XXI (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2011). Former executive director of Alice James Books (2000 – 2008), she owns a consulting business (www.aprilossmann.com), offering manuscript editing and publishing advice. She has taught at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College, and teaches private tutorials and poetry workshops. She lives in White River Junction, Vermont.

                                                                                                                                                               Awards: 

                         

                     Grand Prize: $1,000.00   

                                                                                                                      Second prize:  $500.00 

                                                                                                                             Third prize: $250.00 

              

               Poets will receive their awards from Crosswinds by                                      April 15th following the poetry contest deadline.
                     Winners and finalists agree to allow Crosswinds                        to publish and their names on this website and other platforms,     and to be featured on our e-mail outreach platform with links to                          their books, sent to over 8,000 poets & writers.
             Payment is two contributor copies for the winners and seven additional honorable mentions, and one contributor copy for the remaining authors.
                              Thank you for supporting Crosswinds.
             When our upcoming contest begins on November 1st, 2024,                                         Please submit your work below…   


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