The Kenyon Review‘s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world. The contest winner receives a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop. In addition, the winning poem and the poems of the two runners-up will be published in the Kenyon Review, one of the country’s most widely read literary magazines.
DEADLINE: November 30, 2019
WHAT TO SUBMIT: one previously unpublished poem
WHO CAN SUBMIT: 10th & 11th graders only
HOW TO SUBMIT: via Submittable; no fee
The final judge of the contest will be Molly McCully Brown, author of The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded.