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Radar Poetry Issue 40 features the winner of the 2024 Coniston Prize selected by January Gill O’Neil, Nina C. Peláez. You can also enjoy poems by Destiny O. Birdsong, Caitlin Cowan, Alyssa Froehling, Cara Waterfall, Chelsea Woodard, Rosemary Herbert, Cynthia Maria Hoffman, Natalie Homer, Kathryn Hunt, Louie Leyson, and Jennifer Stewart Miller. Plus, enjoy artwork from Loretta Libby Atkins, Kelly Cressio-Moeller, Abbie Doll, P. Dubroof, Taryn FitzGerald, Nuala McEvoy, and Sarah J. Sloat.

The Coniston Prize is an annual award recognizing an exceptional group of poems by a woman writing in English. Any poet who identifies as a woman is eligible to enter. It is hosted annually with an August 1 deadline.

2020 Coniston Prize Winner & Finalists Announced

Laura Villareal is the winner of Radar Poetry‘s 2020 Coniston Prize. Her suite of poems will appear in Issue 28. Judge Ada Limón said of Villareal’s poems, “With language that is alive and piercing with rich sound work and haunting images, these poems are both confident and aching.”

Finalists of this year’s prize were Hillary Berg, Mary Craig, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Jessica Hincapie, Amy Miller, Meredith Stricker, and Sarah Wolfson. You can read their poems in Issue 28 as well.