Contests
Winter 2026
Contests
Our First Contest Will Be Judged by Joan Kwon Glass!
All poems published by Odd Pocket Press are considered for our quarterly poetry contest. The first place winner will receive $300. The second place winner will receive $200 and the third place winner will get $100. All entries will get our attention!
Submit no more than 3 poems before April 1st, 2026. Admission fee is $15.
Details on what and how to submit are on our Submit Page.
Our first contest judge is Joan Kwon Glass,. Winners will be announced in June, 2026.
About Joan Kwon Glass
Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic Korean American poet, author of the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024)– winner of the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry & the IPPY Gold Medal for Poetry & finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. Her book, NIGHT SWIM, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize.
Joan’s poems have been featured on NPR & in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Best American Poetry, Poem of the Week, Tahoma Literary Review, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She is a 2025 SWWIM writer in residence & has been a guest lecturer or visiting writer at Amherst College, Smith College, Wesleyan University, the New School & elsewhere. Joan has served as a judge for various book awards & prizes & teaches writing workshops at writing centers such as Brooklyn Poets, Poets House, Writing Workshops of Dallas & Hudson Valley Writers Center. She lives near New Haven, CT.
Subscribe to her Substack for poems & writing prompts every Friday morning!
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