The Ruminate Broadside Poetry Prize is closed.
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 Sept. 1st
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 two poetry collections Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean) and Diurne (Tupelo Press) were published in 2019. She was the senior poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine from 2014-2020. 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