The 2025 Beautiful Pause Prize Open for Poetry Collections

The Beautiful Pause Prize is a yearly prize of $1,000 and the print publication of a full-length manuscript awarded to a writer of exceptional talent and heart. One runner-up will receive $500 and publication of a series of poems in one of our print volumes. Submit your poetry manuscripts through May 1, 2025. We are looking for original, honest, beautiful poems from humans. We have no gates to keep. Haunt us from every corner of every place. Send us collections that make us pause, slow down, think, laugh, cry, and feel more connected to our fellow humans. As we always say: Send us whatever is in your hearts. Read the guidelines here.