The Inaugural Breakwater Review Poetry Contest

The winners of the Inaugural Breakwater Review Poetry Contest have been announced! Congratulations to the winners, and thanks so much to all of our entrants for their participation. Read the winners here.

Breakwater Review would like to announce its Inaugural Poetry Contest, offering $500 in prizes with no entry fee!

 

The Judge:

Our esteemed judge is Gail Mazur, whose distinguished work includes six collections of poetry, most recently Figures in a Landscape (U. of Chicago, 2011). Gail was awarded the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award for Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems. Her poems have been included in two Pushcart Prize Anthologies.

 

The Prizes:

The top three winners will receive cash prizes of $300, $150 and $50, respectively, along with publication in Breakwater Review Issue 7, forthcoming this June.

 

The Details:

  • Only one poem may be submitted to the contest per entrant.
  • Entries should be submitted through our online submissions manager. Please make sure to include “POETRY CONTEST:” at the beginning of that poem’s title field, after which the poem’s title can follow.
  • All submissions should be previously unpublished.
  • All entries will be automatically considered for publication in Breakwater Review Issue 7.
  • If you would like to enter an already-submitted poem for contest consideration, either log in and edit the title of that submission as described, or email breakwaterreview@gmail.com with your name and the title of the poem.

 

Deadline: May 15th. The winners will be announced and published in Breakwater Issue 7, publishing on June 1st!

 

Because we are a student-run online literary magazine—and we sympathize with writing all those little checks—there is no entry fee for this contest!