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Award
James Tate Poetry Prize 2026
Competition opportunity. Deadline: 2026-08-31
- Type
- Award
- Organizer
- SurVision Magazine
- Deadline
- 31 August 2026
- Where
- any country
- Compensation
- 1st Prize: €120; 2nd Prize: €80, chapbook publication
- Disciplines
- poetry
About this opportunity
The James Tate Poetry Prize, organized by SurVision Magazine, is an international competition for poets writing in English. It seeks innovative and experimental poetry, with prizes including cash and chapbook publication. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2026.
Who can apply
- Open to new, emerging and established poets from any country writing in English.
- Prefers innovative, experimental, surrealistic poetry.
- Manuscripts should be between 24 and 34 pages of poetry.
- Prose poems and translations of poetry are eligible.
- Individual poems may be previously published in magazines, anthologies, or on social media, but not in previously published books or chapbooks by the poet.
- Previously published or self-published chapbooks are not eligible.
- Authors with collections or chapbooks previously published by SurVision Books are not eligible.