Sunday, August 31, 2025

Writing Competition: Vern Rutsala Book Prize

Book cover of Everywhere, Everywhere by Jeffrey Bean (winner of the 2025 Vern Rutsala Book contest from Cloudbank Books) featuring a girl in a blue dress walking on an overgrown railway track with arms outstretched, surrounded by lush green foliage. 

Vern Rutsala Book Prize
Submissions are accepted through October 31, 2025.

A prize of $1,000 is awarded, plus publication of the manuscript and 50 free books. The judge is Robert Morgan.

Submit 70 to 90 pages of poetry and/or flash fiction, including a Table of Contents and Acknowledgments page. 

Reading fee is $25.

  • Submissions are accepted from around the world with no citizenship limitations.
  • The first 50 writers submitting to the contest receive a Cloudbank book or journal.
  • To submit electronically through our submissions manager click here.
  • Individual poems or flash fictions may have been previously published.
  • Submissions should include two title pages, one with title only, one with title and author name.
  • Cloudbank editors appreciate a wide range of styles, approaches, forms, and aesthetics; we welcome prose poems and flash fiction.

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