2025 Rattle Poetry Prize

The Rattle Poetry Prize is organized by Rattle, an American poetry magazine.The eventis open to poets of any nationality writing in English.

You may submit up to four poems per entry. Poems may be any length, any style, or any subject. Poems must be written in English.

The $30 entry fee is a one-year subscription to Rattle (or a one-year extension for subscribers).

The Rattle Poetry Prize offers $15,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $500 each and publication, and be eligible for the $5,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote. Additional poems from the entries are frequently offered publication as well.

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