Robert H. Winner Memorial Award
$2,500
For a manuscript of 10 pages by a mid-career poet who has not had substantial recognition. Open to poets 40 and over who have published no more than one full-length collection of poetry. Poets who have not published a poetry collection are eligible.
Previously published poems are acceptable; include acknowledgment of publications on your cover sheet. Poems entered as part of a Winner manuscript may be entered individually in other PSA awards, if they haven’t been previously published.
Established by the family and friends of Robert H. Winner, whose first book of poems appeared when he was almost fifty years old.
Judged by Nathan McClain.
Submission Details & Instructions
- Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free.
- The fees for non-members are $15. No fee for members.
- Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere, including in the file name.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine; if the poem is accepted elsewhere for publication, please withdraw the submission.
- Submissions written by more than one author are not eligible.
- Translations are not eligible. All poems must be original and primarily in English.
- A poem that has previously won a Poetry Society of America award cannot be resubmitted to any of the awards.
- We cannot accept corrections after submission.
- Submissions from Poetry Society employees, officers, advisory board committee members, or their immediate families are ineligible.
- All submissions are judged anonymously.
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