Naugatuck River Review is delighted and honored to announce the judge for our 16th annual narrative poetry contest will be Allison Joseph. Contest submissions will be open July 1 through Sept. 1, 2024.
Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021, PBTS Best Book Award winner), Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books, 2022), Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble.
Naugatuck River Review is now closed for submissions for our summer/fall 2024 issue. The next submission period will be for the 16th narrative poetry contest from July 1, 2024 through September 1, 2024. Submission info and guidelines are on our submissions page.
We would also like to congratulate the winners of our 15th annual narrative poetry contest, chosen by Sarah Browning.
15th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest Winners:
1st Prize – Aaron Fischer for “In Praise of Mary Ann Carroll” 2nd Prize – Ellen Romero for “I Walk Out in My Red Shoes” 3rd Prize – Jonathan Cohen for “Butcher Boy”
The contest issue is available to purchase through our Lulu store. Here is the link to purchase:
Reminder: Submissions are now closed until July 1st. Here’s a link to our Submittable page and guidelines are there as well as here below:
GUIDELINES: PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR WORK.
We accept ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ONLY through Submittable. Please submit no more than 3 unpublished NARRATIVE poems (for our definition of narrative poetry, see below). Please, no more than 50 lines per poem in ONE MSWord file, Times New Roman 12 or Callibri 11 preferred (.doc or .docx or .rtf preferred). Please remove your name from the file with your poems, as the poetry is read blind by our editorial staff.
Questions ONLY: Feel free to email us with questions at naugatuckriver@aol.com. All poems will be considered for publication. Accepted poems will be published in the summer/fall issue of NRR. Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you let us know right away if your poem has been picked up by another publication. We claim first North American publication rights, so rights revert to the author after the initial publication period, just please give us credit. We will only consider work that has not been previously published. Member CLMP.
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WHAT IS NARRATIVE POETRY? What NRR is looking for are poems that tell a story, or have a strong sense of story. They can be stories of a moment or an experience, and can be personal, fictional or historical. A good narrative poem that would work for our journal has a compressed narrative, and we prefer poems that take up two pages or less of the journal (50 lines max, not including spaces). We are looking above all for poems that are well-crafted, have an excellent lyric quality and contain a strong emotional core. Any style of poem is considered, including prose poems. Poems with very long lines don’t fit well in the 6 x 9 print format.
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