Inverted Syntax’s Poetry Book Contests

Inverted Syntax [est. 2018] is a press where the margins take center stage. We’re now accepting submissions to our annual poetry book contests: the Sublingua Prize for Poetry (1st Book Award) for exceptional debut collections by female-identifying writers, and the Aggrey & Tabbikha Prize for Poetry for writers with first or second collections who identify as Black and/or part of the S.W.A.N.A diaspora. We welcome intersectional, hybrid, experimental, and speculative poetry—including visual work and multilingual text, as long as the manuscript is primarily in English. Winning entries receive $500, publication and more. We’re also open to submissions in all genres for Fissured Tongue Series Vol. VII. invertedsyntax.submittable.com/submit