Resources for Poets
This is a list of residencies, fellowships, conferences, chapbook competitions, first and second book prizes, book publishers that accept submissions, workshops, retreats, grants/scholarships, and other resources for poets.
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Last updated 11/1/25
Residencies
(post-MFA)
Adirondack Center for Writing - Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency (NY)
Women's Studio Workshop - Artist’s Book Residency Grant (NY, 8-10 weeks, print and bind books)
Art Omi - Writers Residency (NY)
Atlantic Center for the Arts - Mentoring Artist-in-Residence (FL, 4 weeks, $1350, apply for specific artist)
Banff Centre - Writers Residency (Canada, Winter, Spring, Summer)
Banff Centre - Independent Residency (Canada)
Camargo Foundation - Residencies (various locations)
Headlands Center for the Arts - Artist in Residence (CA)
James Merrill House - Writer-in-Residence Program (CT)
Juniper Institute - Summer Writing Institute (MA)
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts - Residency (NE)
Margery Davis Boyden - Wilderness Writing Residency (OR)
Millay Arts - Core Residency (NY)
Millay Arts - Steepletop Residency (NY)
Mineral School - Residency (WA)
National Parks Service Arts Foundation - Artist-in-Residence (various locations)
Ox Bow - Summer Residency (MI, takes MFA students)
Saltonstall Arts Colony - Juried Residencies (NY)
Shandaken Projects - Shandaken: Catskill (NY, free, bookmaking, cultural/queer/climate projects encouraged)
Skidmore College - NYS Summer Writers Institute (NY)
Stadler Center - Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing (PA)
The Center for Humanities and History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Celia Wally Gilbert Artist In Residence (1, 2, or 3 weeks)
The Mastheads - July Residency (MA)
The Mastheads - Day Residency (MA)
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Core Residency (TX)
The Rice Place - Residency (OR)
The Studios of Key West - Peyton Evans Artist Residency Program (FL)
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (AR)
Tin House - Residencies (OR, Fall, Summer, Winter)
Vermont Studio Center - Writer Residency (VT)
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Residencies (VA or France)
Visual Arts Center of Richmond - Artist and Winter Residency (VA, 11 mo)
Voices of the Wilderness - Artist in Residence Program (AK)
Watermill Center - Residencies (NY)
Wellstone Center Redwoods - Weeklong Residency (CA)
Wellstone Center Redwoods - Emerging Writer Residency (CA)
Wild Acres Retreat - Residency Program (NC, 2 weeks)
Fellowships
(For Emerging Writers)
A Public Space - Writing Fellowship (NY, 7 mo, unpublished)
Emory University Fellowship (NE, teaching, MFA completed last 5 years)
Fine Arts Work Center - Fellowship (MA, 7 mo, emerging)
FSG - Writer’s Fellowship (remote, 12 mo, emerging, free app)
Just Buffalo Literary Center - Poetry Fellowship (NY)
Kenyon Review - Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers (OH)
Miami Book Fair - Emerging Writer’s Fellowship (FL)
Colgate University - Olive O’Connor Fellowship (NY, 9 mo)
PEN America - Emerging Voices Fellowship (CA, 5 mo)
The Poetry Project - Emerge Surface Be Fellowship (NYC, 9 months)
Poetry Foundation - Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships (ages 21-31)
The Halls and Wallace Poetry Fellowships (WI, teaching opportunity) - https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/fellowships/
Tin House - Workshop Reading Fellowship (remote, OR)
Fellowships
(For Established Writers)
Carson McCullers Center - Fellowship for Writers (OH, 3 mo)
Gilman School Reginald S. Tickner Writing Center - Tickner Writing Fellowship Program (MD, teaching, lit mag, all boys school)
Harvard University - Woodbury Poetry Room Creative Fellowship (MA)
New York Foundation for the Arts - Artist Fellowships (NY)
The Kenyon Review - Kenyon Review Fellowships (OH)
The Rome Prize - https://www.aarome.org/apply/rome-prize (Italy)
Under the Volcano - Fellowships (Mexico)
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Fully-Funded Fellowships (VA)
Wellstone Center Redwoods - Writing Fellowship (CA)
Fellowships
(For Advanced Writers)
Bogliasco Foundation - Fellowship (Italy)
Camargo Foundation - Camargo Fellowship (various locations)
Exeter University - George Bennett Fellowship (NH, unpublished)
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Writing Fellowships
Harvard University - Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (MA)
MacDowell - MacDowell Fellowship (NH)
Princeton University - The Hodder Fellowship (NJ)
Princeton University - Princeton Arts Fellowship (NJ)
San José State University - Steinbeck Fellowships (CA)
Stanford University - Wallace Stegner Fellowship (NH)
Conferences
Aspen Institute - Summer Words Writers Conference (CO)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs - Annual Conference (various locations)
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (VT)
Indiana University - Writers’ Conference (IN)
Mendocino Coast - Writers’ Conference (CA)
Napa Valley Writers’ Conference (CA)
Sewanee Writers’ Conference (TN)
Vermont College of Fine Arts - Postgraduate Writers’ Conference (VT)
Chapbook Competitions
Black Lawrence Press - Black River Chapbook Competition
Bottlecap Press - Chapbook Submissions (12-28p)
Comstock Review - Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest (25-34p)
Ethel Zine - Chapbook Submissions
Finishing Line Press - New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition
Finishing Line Press - Open Chapbook Competition
Fjords Review - Chapbook Series
Florida Review - Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award
Flume Press - Chapbook Contest
Gasher Press - Poetry Chapbook Prize
Glass Poetry Press - Glass Chapbook Series (15-25p,10/1-10/31)
Omnidawn - Poetry Chapbook Contest (25-45p, 5/1-6/16)
Oversound Poetry - Chapbook Prize
Poetry Society of America - Chapbook Fellowship (20-30p)
Quarter After Eight - Summer Poetry Chapbook Contest
Rattle - Chapbook Prize
Rejected Lit - Chapbook Contest
Stanchion Zine - Chapbook Submissions (40-90p)
The Diagram - Chapbook Contest
Yes Yes Books - Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize
First (or Second) Book Prizes
Boa Editions - A Poulis Jr Poetry Prize (60-120 pg)
Academy of American Poets - First Book Award
American Poetry Review - Honickman First Book Prize
Brick Road Poetry Press - Poetry Book Contest
Changes Press - Changes Book Prize
Copper Nickel - Jake Adam York Prize (7/1-10/15)
Persea Books - Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
Omnidawn - First/Second Poetry Book contest
Perugia Press - Perugia Press Prize
Poetry Society of America - Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (10p from manuscript-in-progress)
Silverfish Review Press - Gerald Cable Book Award
University of Massachusetts - Juniper Prize for Poetry (8/1-9/30)
Yale Books - Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize
Yes Yes Books - Pamet River Prize
Book Publishers
(that accept submissions)
Alice James Books - Book Award
House of Anansi - Submissions (Canada)
BlazeVOX - Submissions
Center for Literary Publishing / University of Colorado Press - Colorado Prize for Poetry (48-100p)
Coffee House Press - Submissions
Colorado Review - Colorado Prize for Poetry
Dzanc Books - Poetry Prize (discontinued?)
Fjords Review - Full Length Book
Fonograf Editions - Open Genre Book Prize (9/1-11/5)
Fordham University - Poetic Justice Institute Prize
Gunpowder Press - Barry Spacks Poetry Prize (1/1-4/30)
Litmus Press - Submissions
Mad Creek Books Wheeler Poetry Prize (48 p, 10/1, $25 fee)
Southern Indiana Review Press - Michael Waters Poetry Prize
Stanchion Zine - Book Submissions (100-200p)
National Federation of State Poetry Societies - Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Manuscript
Nightboat Books - Poetry Prize
Nightboat Books - Poetry Reading Period
Noemi Press - Book Award for Poetry
Omnidawn - Poetry Open Book Contest
Persea Books - Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (48+p, 9/1-10/31)
Persea Books - Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award (48+p, 1/1-3/15)
Red Hen Press - Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award (48-96p, 4/30-10/31)
Station Hill Press - Submissions
Steel Toe Books - Poetry Prize (1/1-9/1)
Steel Toe Books - Open Call for Poetry
The Fence - Ottoline Prize
The Fence - Modern Poets Series Prize
The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
Tupelo Press - Dorset Prize
Tupelo Press - Helena Whitehill Book Award
Ugly Duckling Presse - Submissions
University of Massachusetts Press - Juniper Prize for Poetry (8/1-9/30)
University of North Texas Press - Vassar Miller Prize
Wave Books - Submissions
Wendy’s Subway - Open Reading Period
Wendy’s Subway - Carolyn Bush Award
Yes Yes Books - Open Reading Period
Workshops
92NY - Advanced Writing Workshops (NYC)
Fine Arts Work Center - Summer Workshops (MA)
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - Summer Writing Program (CO, 4 weeks)
Kenyon Review - Residential Adult Writers Workshops (OH)
The Poetry Project - Workshops (NYC)
The Writer's Studio - Workshops (various)
Tin House - Workshops (OR, Fall, Summer, Winter)
Retreats
A Public Space - Weekend Writer’s Retreat (NY)
Chestnut Review - Writing Retreats (various locations, weeklong)
Interlochen Center for the Arts - Writer’s Retreat (WI)
Lamda Literary - Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices (online)
MASS MoCA - Writing Through Art Poetry Retreat (MA)
Millay Arts - Wintertide Rustic Retreat (NY)
Saltonstall - Retreat Space for NYS Artists & Writers (NY)
Grants/Scholarships
Amy Lowell - Poetry Traveling Scholarship (40 p, snail mail, 10/15)
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund (women writers)
Highlights Foundation - Scholarships (PA or online, for retreat or workshop)
Walt Whitman Museum - Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship (emerging poets 25-25 y/o)
Residencies - Photography
Women's Studio Workshop - Anita Wetzel Residency Grant (NY, 4-6 weeks)
Women's Studio Workshop - Studio Residency Grant (6-8 weeks, NY)
Women's Studio Workshop - Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant (NY, 4 weeks)
Women's Studio Workshop - Studio Workspace Residency (NY)
Women's Studio Workshop - Artist’s Book Residency Grant (8-10 weeks, NY, print and bind books)