The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $15,000 for a single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten finalists will also receive $500 each and publication, and be eligible for the $5,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and entrant vote.

Additional poems from the entries are frequently offered publication as well. In 2023 we published 19 poems that had been submitted to the contest from over 3,000 entries.

With the winners judged in an anonymized review by the editors to ensure a fair and consistent selection, an entry fee that is simply a one-year subscription to the magazine—and a large Readers’ Choice Award to be chosen by the writers themselves—we’ve designed the Rattle Poetry Prize to be one of the most inspiring contests around.

Past winners have included a retired teacher, a lawyer, and several students. It’s fair, it’s friendly, and you win a print subscription to Rattle even if you don’t win.

DEADLINE:
July 15th

Information

Guidelines / How to Enter
Code of Ethics

Past Winners

2024	Arthur Russell	Among Other Things
2023	Ardon Shorr	Time Travel for Beginners
2022	L. Renée	Shoes
2021	Ann Giard-Chase	Encephalon
2020	Alison Townsend	Pantoum from the Window …
2019	Matthew Dickman	Stroke
2018	Dave Harris	Turbulence
2017	Rayon Lennon	Heard
2016	Julie Price Pinkerton	Veins
2015	Tiana Clark	Equilibrium
2014	Craig van Rooyen	Waiting in Vain
2013	Roberto Ascalon	The Fire This Time
2012	Heidi Shuler	Trials of a Teenage …
2011	Hayden Saunier	The One and the Other
2010	Patricia Smith	Tavern. Tavern. Church. …
2009	Lynne Knight	To the Young Man Who Cried Out …
2008	Joseph Fasano	Mahler in New York
2007	Albert Haley	Barcelona
2006	Sophia Rivkin	Conspiracy

Full Results by Year

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