The Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in the United States in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2024.
Donor Name: Poetry Society of America
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 12/31/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Four Quartets Prize is first and foremost a celebration of the multi-part poem, which includes entire volumes composed of a unified sequence as well as novels in verse and book-length verse narratives.
Prize Information
Finalists will receive $1,000 each. The winner will receive an additional $20,000.
Requirements
- Fourteen pages of published poems unified by subject, form, and style is the minimum per submission.
- Submissions must be accompanied by an entry form and a paragraph statement about the aims of the work.
- The poems must have been published in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book in 2024.
- Entire books composed of a unified sequence, however long, are also welcome.
- If the poems in the sequence have been published separately in print or online journals or in a chapbook, please include four copies of the table of contents and the copyright page of each journal or chapbook attached to the poems published in that publication.
- If the sequence is contained in a book, please send four copies of the sequence along with four copies of the table of contents’ page and the copyright page.
- Please be sure to order the poems in the sequence.
- If the sequence constitutes an entire book, please send four copies of the book.
- Self-published work is ineligible.
- Submissions by more than one author are not eligible.
- Only one submission per author will be considered.
- Only work published in 2024 will be considered.
- The Poetry Society of America will accept submissions from authors, publishers, and literary agents.
- The submission must be accompanied by an entry form.
- Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
- Entries should be sent via USPS.
- There is no submission fee.
For more information, visit Poetry Society of America.
