​​​​The 2020 Laux/Millar RR Poetry Prize Guidelines


JUDGING

  • ENTRY FEE: $15 USD, which includes a copy of the Fall 2020 issue.
  • The Raleigh Review poetry staff will serve as preliminary judges.
  • The judges of the finalists will be Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar. 



PRIZES

  • First Prize includes $500 USD and publication in the Fall 2020 issue.
  • Finalists will receive standard $15 payment along with publication.
  • Honorable Mentions will be considered for publication and standard payment.
  • All Finalists and Honorable Mentions will receive a 2-year subscription to Raleigh Review.
  • All entrants will receive the Fall 2020 issue of Raleigh Review.


GUIDELINES:

  • Opens on April 1, 2020.
  • Deadline is June 1, 2020 at 5 AM EST.
  • Submit up to five pages of unpublished poems per entry.
  • Entries are only accepted via Submittable.
  • Attached files should be free of personal identifiers such as name, address, phone and email, social media handles, etc. 
  • Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. If one or more poems is selected for publication by another magazine, please leave a note on your submission via Submittable.
  • Failure to meet guidelines may result in disqualification.
  • Current students or affiliates of Raleigh Review editorial staff and Raleigh Review board members are not eligible to enter. 
  • This contest is open to poets who reside in the USA (regardless of immigration status).


Selected by Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar (2019)

Winner:

"Iguana Iguana" by Caylin Capra-Thomas

"We love "iguana, Iguana".  What a glorious ride. We love her use of the "controlling image."  Every time we think she's making a leap away from the iguana, she returns to it with a vengeance.  This poem goes so many places, has so much humor and humanity, so much muchness and toughness and tenderness and forgiveness.  Of everything and everyone.  Jim and Sylvester and William, no-see-ums and mothers, good and bad boyfriends, stray cats and dead birds, dancing pecs and death. Damn, we're impressed." -Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar

Finalists:
"At the Bar" by Cameron McGill
"The Land in Both Our Names" by Suzanne Grove
"After Watching The Quiet Man" by Hannah Dow
"Sertraline" by Emily Nason


Selected by Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar (2018)

Winner:
"Forever Daylight" by John Sibley Williams

Honorable Mentions:
"Four Sonnets" Bailey Cohen [2nd]

"Lightning Flowers" Emily Mohn-Slate [3rd]

Finalists:
"Other women don't tell you" by Julia Dasbach
"Keloid Scar" by Julia Dasbach
"Sometimes I Pretend the Daughter I Wanted Was Born Alive" by Chelsea Dingman
"After You Have Gone" by Chelsea Dingman


Selected by Dorianne Laux & Joseph Millar (2017)


Winner:
Kristin Robertson - "Poem for My Unborn Daughter"

Honorable Mention:
Jenna Bazzell - "All Is Wild, All Is Silent"

Finalists:
Emily Paige Wilson - "Reasons to Return Home"
Emily Rose Cole - "How Not to Remember Your Mother"
Jenna Bazzell - "The Speaker's Prayer" 
Mario Ariza - "Erratic transcription of notes taken at a refugee camp in Anse-A-Pitre, Haiti."

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