Our annual NEPC contests are now open for submissions. We strongly encourage digital submissions to our individual poem contests. Poem Contest Submission Guidelines and Submission Forms are here. Book Prize … Read more2024 NEPC Book Prizes and Poem Contests NOW OPEN
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Enzo Silon Surin Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, author, educator, publisher and social advocate. He has taught, performed, and lectured on topics such … Read more2024 Contest Judges Announced
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Photograph (L to R): Ali Kinsella, Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Halyna Kruk is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, educator, and literary critic. … Read moreHalyna Kruk, “In a Small Provincial Chinese Town,” translated from the Ukranian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Pear These days, the elders, even peers my own age, are leaving, one after another. You were peeling a pear when I … Read moreDuan Qingqing, “Pear” translated from the Chinese by Paula J. Lambert
Winner, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by Eric Hyett
Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by Eric Hyett
Diana Der Hovanessian Prize, selected by Jean Dany Joachim
Diana Der Hovanessian Prize, selected by Jean Dany Joachim
