Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry

$2,500 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry

Deadline: May 19, 2025

We will begin accepting entries for this award on November 1, 2024.

Guidelines

Upload your writing online by midnight (CST) Monday, May 19th. Entries sent after midnight (CST) May 19th cannot be considered or refunded. Please read guidelines carefully to ensure best service.

Submit with each entry:

$24 entry fee for each manuscript submitted. A one-year digital subscription to New Letters is included in the price of the first entry. (Subscriptions mailed outside the U.S. require a $22 postal surcharge.)

Please include one cover sheet stating the genre (poetry) and the tile(s) of each poem. Your personal information should not appear anywhere on the entry.

The name of the file you upload should be the title of the first poem in the entry.

Rules & Notes

Simultaneous submissions of unpublished entries are accepted with proper notification upon acceptance elsewhere.
A poetry entry may contain up to six poems, and those poems need not be related.
The max page count for poetry entries of up to six poems is 30 pages.
Multiple entries are accepted with appropriate fees.
No substitutions after submissions. No refunds will be offered for withdrawn material.
No postal entries will be accepted. All entries must be submitted online through our submission manager, Submittable.
Current students and employees of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and current volunteer members of the New Letters’ staff are not eligible.

Timeline

Finalists are notified in August, after preliminary judging.
Final judging selects one winner and one runner-up in each category, announced in October.
Judges have the option to select work for second runner-up and honorable mentions.