Poets are invited to compete for the National Poetry Month Prize, sponsored by the award-winning Aquarius Press/Willow Books. The competition runs the entire month of April. Poets at all levels are welcome. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize, publication by Aquarius Press and 10 author copies.

All entries will be read blind by our panel of editors. Manuscripts should be paginated and formatted in an easy-to-read font such as Times New Roman or Calibri in Word format. Manuscripts should be no more than 150 pages in length. Identifying information for the author should not be included anywhere on the manuscript itself. Please include a brief bio in your cover note, which will only be made accessible to the editorial panel after the group of Semi-Finalist and Finalist manuscripts have been chosen.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please notify us by withdrawing your manuscript immediately if it is accepted for publication elsewhere.

• Multiple submissions (the submission of more than one manuscript to the contest) are permitted but a separate fee applies.
• Prize money awarded upon publication.

We look forward to reading your work!