First Place

$200

Publication in Summer 2023

Serve as Judge for 2024 HeartWood Poetry Prize

 

Finalists

$50

Publication in Summer 2023


2023 CONTEST JUDGED BY

2022 HeartWood Poetry Prize Winner

Hollie DUgas

Hollie Dugas lives in New Mexico. Her work has been selected to be included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Redivider, Porter House Review, Pembroke, Salamander, Poet Lore, Watershed Review, Mud Season Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Penn Review, Chiron Review, Louisiana Literature, and CALYX. Most recently, her poem was selected as winner of the 22nd Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize at CALYX. Hollie has been a finalist twice for the Peseroff Prize at Breakwater Review, Greg Grummer Poetry Prize at Phoebe, Fugue’s Annual Contest, and has received Honorable Mention in Broad River Review. Additionally, “A Woman’s Confession #5,162” was selected as the winner of Western Humanities Review Mountain West Writers’ Contest (2017). Recently, Hollie has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best New Poets 2021. She is currently a member on the editorial board for Off the Coast.


CONTEST INFORMATION

  • Submission Period: May 15 — June 15, 2023.

  • All submissions through Submittable with a $5 reading fee.

  • Poets may submit up to 3 previously unpublished poems, 5 pages maximum.

  • Cover letter should include a short biography under 75 words.

  • Submission file should not include your name or any other identifying information.

  • Previous first prize winners (including HeartWood’s former Broadside Contest) are not eligible, nor are associates, friends, or students of the judge.

  • Current or past employees, current or past students, and alumni of the MFA program at WVWC are not eligible.

  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere by sending us a note through Submittable.

  • Submissions not adhering to our guidelines will not be considered.