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      2025 Rattle Poetry Prize

      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

      2024 |2023 |2022 | 2021 |2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006