Poetry and Prose Contests
This fall, Quarterly West will open for its inaugural poetry and prose contests. The winners will each receive $1000 and publication in the Issue 102 of Quarterly West. Two runners-up will each receive $250 and all entries will be considered for publication.
To enter, please submit up to three poems or a prose piece (i.e., fiction, non-fiction, or any hybridization therein) through our Submittable link.
The submission fee is $10.
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2020
This year, the inaugural poetry judge is Natalie Scenters-Zapico and the inaugural prose judge is Jen George.
Our 2020 Poetry Judge
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Her first collection, The Verging Cities (2015), won the PEN America/Joyce Osterweil Award, GLCA’s New Writers Award, NACCS Foco Book Prize, and Utah Book Award. Lima :: Limón is her second collection. She has won fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, CantoMundo, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and literary magazines, including Best American Poetry 2015, POETRY, Tin House, Kenyon Review, and more. Most recently she was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (2020) and the International Griffin Poetry Prize (2020).
Our 2020 Prose Judge
Jen George was born and raised in Southern California. She is the author of the story collection The Babysitter at Rest, out with Dorothy, a publishing project. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1 and the Paris Review Daily, among other places. She lives in New York, where she is currently at work on a novel.
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