Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year award accepts entries from around the world and gives cash prizes to the winner and the runner-up.
Fee: $35 CDN ($26 USD)
Prize: $5,000 ($3,734 USD) for first place and $500 ($374 USD) for an honorable mention. Shortlisted entries for the Poem of the Year will be published online and in a print issue of Arc, and will receive page-rate payment for publication. See complete guidelines.
At Arc, we find the brave new voices. We feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike; and prose that offers new perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.