~ contests

1\ Cider Press Review Editor's Prize: June 30 deadline, $25 fee
2\ Crab Orchard Review First Book Prize: July 6 deadline, $25 fee
3\ U of Wisconsin Brittingham / Pollack Poetry Prize: September 30 deadline, 60-90 pgs, $30 fee 
4\ Philip Levine Prize in Poetry: September 30 deadline, 48-80 pgs, $25 fee
5\ Arkansas University Press Contest: October31 deadline, 60-90 pgs, $25 fee
6\ Yale Series of Younger Poets: November 15 deadline, 48-64 pgs, $20 fee
7\ Walt Whitman Award: November 15 deadline, 40-80 pgs, $30 fee
8\ Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry: November 15 deadline, 50-80 pgs, $25 fee
9\ White Pine Poetry Press: November 30 deadline, 60-80 pgs, $20 fee 
10\ New Issues Poetry and Prose Prize: November 30 deadline, 48-80 pgs, $20 fee 
11 \ Richard Wilbur Award: December 1 deadline, 50-100 pgs, $20 fee 
12\ Tupelo Press Dorset Prize: December 31 deadline, 48-88 pgs, $28 fee 
13\  New Southern Voices Prize: April 1 deadline, 48-120 pgs, $25 fee
14\ The Backwaters Prize: May 31 deadline, 60-85 pgs, $25 fee