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Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest

Deadline: February 19, 2014

Judge: Alicia Ostriker

First prize: $1,000

The Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Contest is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Translations are not eligible for this contest. Poets submitting work for consideration may be published authors or writers without prior book or journal publications.

Multiple TQ editors will consider each entry and select 20 finalists. From the finalists, contest judge Alicia Ostriker will select a winning poem and three runners-up. At no time will our judge have any identifying information about the authors.

Results will be posted online in the third issue of Tupelo Quarterly, on April 15, 2014.

For complete guidelines, please click here.

Major American poet and critic Alicia Ostriker has been twice nominated for a National Book Award, and is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including The Book of Seventy (2009), which won the Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and The Old Woman, the Tulip and the Dog, published in 2014. As a critic Ostriker is the author of two pathbreaking volumes on women's poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. She has also published three books on the Bible, Feminist Revision and the Bible, the controversial The Nakedness of the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of prose and poetry that re-imagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish woman; and a set of essays, For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book. Her most recent book of criticism is Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic.

You can read more about her here.