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Award
James Tate Poetry Chapbook Contest 2026
Competition opportunity. Deadline: 2026-08-31
- Type
- Award
- Organizer
- Poetry Ireland / SurVision Books
- Deadline
- 31 August 2026
- Where
- any country
- Compensation
- 1st Prize: €120, 2nd Prize: €80. Chapbook publication and 10 complimentary copies. Finalists may be offered publication at SurVision Books' discretion. Submission fee: €18 (waived for Ukrainian writers).
- Disciplines
- poetry
About this opportunity
The James Tate Poetry Chapbook Contest 2026 invites poets from any country writing in English to submit innovative, experimental, or surrealistic poetry. Winners receive a chapbook publication, 10 copies, and cash prizes, with potential publication for finalists.
Who can apply
- Open to new, emerging and established poets from any country writing in English.
- Poems must be the original work of the entrant.
- Manuscripts can be between 24 and 34 pages.
- Prose poems and translations of poetry are also eligible.
- Individual poems may be previously published in magazines, anthologies, or on social media, but not in the 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.
- Entrance fee of €18 for each manuscript.