Announcing the final judge for the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize!

The Sunken Garden

Chapbook Poetry Prize

Deadline: October 31, 2018

(postmark or online submission-date)

Final Judge: Timothy Donnelly

Prize: $1,000

Established in 2002, the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize has drawn submissions from around the country that have been judged by renowned poets such as Martha Collins, Patricia Smith and Tony Hoagland. The winner receives a cash prize, an introductory reading at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (check out the Festival here ), and publication of a chapbook. Hill-Stead began partnering with Tupelo Press for the publication of the chapbook in 2013. Recent winners include Chaun Ballard, Suzanne Parker, and Emily Jungmin Yoon.

Please read the full guidelines here .

Timothy Donnelly's most recent publications include The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the chapbook Hymn to Life. His poems have been widely anthologized and translated and have appeared or are forthcoming Harper's, Harvard Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships and residencies from the New York State Writers Institute, the Lannan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.