Palette Poetry invites innovative work from emerging poets for The 2024 Rising Poet Prize. This contest is open to poets who have not yet published a full-length collection at the time of submission.

For this prize, the organzizer is only accepting unpublished work from new and emerging poets: poets without a full-length collection published at the time of submission. Poets with no publication history are especially encouraged to submit. Poets with only chapbooks published are also eligible. Poets with self-published full-length collections, however, are ineligible.

Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the poem is largely written in English.

The first-place winning poet will be awarded $3,000, publication, and an interview in Palette Poetry. The second-place and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200, respectively, as well as publication. The top ten finalists will be selected by Palette editors, and Guest Judge Morgan Parker will choose the three winners from among the ten finalists.

The contest closes September 22, 2024. Submitters will be notified of their submission status 8-12 weeks after the contest closing date.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.