To honor the remarkable voices shaping contemporary poetry, Frontier Poetry invites submissions to the 2025 OPEN—our premier prize of the year. This annual competition welcomes both emerging and established poets to share their most resonant work. One outstanding poem will be awarded $5,000 and featured on Frontier’s website where we celebrate poetry that lives on the edge of what language can do.

In addition to the winner, nine finalists will also receive an award of $100 each with publication. The Frontier Poetry editorial team will work together to select winners and finalists for this contest.

While we primarily serve as a platform for new and emerging writers, the OPEN is meant to support and elevate the poetry community as a whole. Every year, we look forward to this prize, for which emerging and established poets are considered in equal measure and as a result are often published side by side in Frontier Poetry.

Genre(s): Poetry

Location(s): Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA

Submissions Open: May 5

Submissions Close: June 29

Submission Fee: $20

Fee Waiver: Yes

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