Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
2025 STAN AND TOM WICK POETRY PRIZE
$2,500 for a First Book of Poems
This prize is offered annually to a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems. The prize awards the winner with $2,500 and publication of their first full-length book of poetry by the 麻豆视频最新最全 University Press. The winner and the competition's judge will give a reading together on the 麻豆视频最新最全 campus.
The 2024 winner was The Deep Blue of Neptune by Terry Belew selected by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
The 2025 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize judge is P谩draig 脫 Tuama
P谩draig 脫 Tuama is a poet, theologian, conflict resolution mediator, and the author of Poetry Unbound: 44 Poems On Being Together (2025), Kitchen Hymns (2025), Being Here: Prayers for Curiosity, Justice, and Love (2024), Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (2022), Feed the Beast (2022), Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017), In the Shelter (2015), Sorry for your Troubles (2013), and Readings from the Books of Exile (2012), which was longlisted for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
- The competition is open to poets writing in English who have not yet published a full-length collection of poems (a volume of 50 or more pages published in an edition of 500 or more copies).
- There is a $25 reading fee.
- Submissions must consist of 50 to 70 pages of poetry, with no more than one poem included on a page.
- The poet's name or identifying information is not to appear on the manuscript. Include just one title page with the title only. List all other contact information in the "cover letter" box of the submissions manager. Entries are judged anonymously. If any identifying information is found in the manuscript, including publication information or identifying dedications or notes, the manuscript will be disqualified.
- Do not include an acknowledgments page. If an acknowledgments page is included in the manuscript, the manuscript will be disqualified.
- The manuscript may be submitted simultaneously to other publishers, but the poet must notify the Wick Poetry Center immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.
- Manuscripts must be postmarked between February 1, 2025, and May 1, 2025.
- A winner will be announced in late summer.