Deadline: June 30th, 2026
Awards: USD300, 200, and 100
No entry fee
In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s September 2026 publication of Mark Kyungsoo Bias’s MINOR DESTRUCTIONS (winner of the Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize), SUSPECT calls for poems that use BOTH words “minor” AND “destructions” or their variants in an imaginative fashion, together or separately. We want micro-stories of huge losses and macro-stories of tiny wreckages. We want deconstructed lyrics and lyrical deconstructions. We want the irreparable, except, perhaps, by art.
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