The Ruminate Broadside Poetry Prize is open!
Each year we award $500 and publication to the winning poet.
Two poems per entry;
10 to 30 lines each
Entry fee is $12 (includes a digital copy of Ruminate)
Deadline is August 15th
(plus 3-day grace period)
Kristin George Bagdanov earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Colorado State University and is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at U.C. Davis. Her poems have recently appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto Del Sol, and other journals. Her collection of poetry, Fossils in the Making, was published this spring by Black Ocean. Her chapbook Diurne, which won the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in summer 2019. She has been the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine since 2014. More at kristingeorgebagdanov.com or @KristinGeorgeB.
As with all our submissions, we highly recommend reading a copy of the magazine to better understand the type of work we are looking for.
Download a free excerpt from a past issue featuring some of the winning poems from our 2013 Poetry Prize judged by Maurice Manning.
Download a free excerpt from a past issue featuring some of the winning poems from our 2013 Poetry Prize judged by Maurice Manning.
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"Poetry is the only thing I really have. The
thing that lets me know I’m here. So when
my poems are published or heard, in that
moment, I know I really exist."
thing that lets me know I’m here. So when
my poems are published or heard, in that
moment, I know I really exist."
—Paula Harris, winner of the 2019 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize