The 10th Singapore Poetry Contest

Deadline: Monday, May 6, 2024
Awards: USD300, 200, and 100
No entry fee

In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s April 2024 publication of Jeddie Sophronius's Interrogation Records, the winner of the Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, SUSPECT is holding the 10th Singapore Poetry Contest with a call for submissions inspired by the title of this extraordinary book of poems.

We are looking for poems that use the word “interrogation” in imaginative ways. The poems may be on any theme, but they will be judged for the creative use of the word “interrogation” as much as they will be for overall excellence. The word "interrogation" may be used in any of its forms, such as "interrogate," "interrogates," and "interrogated," but synonyms will not be accepted.

The contest is open to everyone, living anywhere.

Awards of USD300, 200, and 100 will go to the top three winners. The winning poems will be published on SUSPECT; non-winning poems will be considered for publication as well.

This year’s judge is the winner of the 2023 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize, Jeddie Sophronius. Jeddie Sophronius is the author of the poetry collections Interrogation Records (Gaudy Boy, 2024), Happy Poems & Other Lies (Codhill/SUNY Press, 2024), Love & Sambal (The Word Works, 2024), and the chapbook Blood·Letting (Quarterly West, 2023). A Chinese-Indonesian writer from Jakarta, they received their MFA from the University of Virginia, where they currently serve as a lecturer in English. Their poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Read more of their work at nakedcentaur.com.

Friends and family of the judge are allowed to submit entries too. Judging will be based on poetic merit. We reserve the right not to make any or all awards, should the quality of entries not merit them.

Contest entry is free. Please submit a maximum of three poems. Only unpublished poems will be considered. Posting on weblog, Facebook, and other social media does not constitute publication. No simultaneous submissions, please. Email your submission to Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org. The poem(s) must be pasted into the body of the email, together with a short cover letter giving your name, mailing address, and brief biographical note.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, May 6, 2024. Results will be announced in July, 2024. We ask for non-exclusive rights to publication on the SUSPECT website and subsequent print anthologies, if any.