Our Hermit Crab 10 Day challenge this fall invited submitters to try out a new technique, and poets were writing and submitting “hermit crab,” poems, which are poems that borrow form found in other sources—a poem built from a grocery…
The moment you’ve all been waiting for: we’re announcing the winners and finalists for the 2024 Frontier OPEN. We’re excited to welcome Marianne Kunkel into the Frontier community with her winning poem, “To the Man who Hugged Me after I…
It’s time to give a big congratulations to the winner of Frontier Poetry’s Nature & Place Prize, Zachary Scalzo. Their riveting poem, “Sometimes—there’s God—so quickly.,” was selected by our guest judge Flower Conroy. As always, the Frontier Poetry reading and…
Please join us in congratulating the winner of Frontier Poetry‘s “(Not) In Love” Tanka Challenge, Diana Tokaji and her winning tanka “Physics Lesson: How a Girl Stores Power.” The Frontier Poetry team is so grateful for the unprecedented amount of…
Please join us in congratulating the winner of Frontier Poetry‘s Ekphrastic Poetry Prize, the talented Ryan Varadi. The team here at Frontier Poetry is beyond thankful for everyone that has submitted their work to the contest–your voice is necessary. Thank…
Congratulations to the gifted emerging poet Ira Goga, winner of the 2023 Award for New Poets! The team at Frontier Poetry is deeply grateful for everyone that submitted their work–we see you and we thank you. We’d also like to…
Congratulations to the winners of Frontier Poetry’s 2023 OPEN and an enormous thanks to everyone who submitted. Thank you, also, for your patience while we reviewed all the extraordinary work. A BIG round of applause to MaKshya Tolbert, the winner…
Please join us in congratulating Kathryn Hargett-Hsu, winner of the 2023 Frontier Breakthrough Chapbook Contest. Hargett-Hsu’s manuscript was selected by Kemi Alabi and will be published in spring 2024. And congratulations to our outstanding finalists and longlisters! We’re confident we’ll…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Hurt and Healing Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that Andrés Cerpa has selected Eliza Gilbert as the winner of our $3000 award! In second place, we…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Global Poetry Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that the recipients of our $1000 prizes are Iqra Khan, Abigail Mengesha, Carlos A. Pittella, and Javier Sandoval. We’re…
