Singapore Unbound’s SP Weblog is holding its eleventh SUSPECT poetry contest. They’d be awarding 300, 200, and 100USD to the primary three successful entries. Utility is free and the deadline for submission is Might 15, 2025. SUSPECT requires poems that use the phrase “fable” or its variants in an imaginative style. We wish fables and anti-fables, we would like fable-adjacent poems, we would like fabulous conceptions and language.
Who’s Eligible for the eleventh SUSPECT Poetry Contest
- The competition is barely open to poets who’re Neither residents nor everlasting residentsin Singapore.
- Contest entry is free.
- There aren’t any age restrictions set.
Tips to submit
- Submit a most of three poems. Solely unpublished poems can be thought of. Posting on weblog, Fb, and different social media doesn’t represent publication.
- Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, offered you inform SP Weblog in case your poem is accepted elsewhere.
- All submissions must be despatched to jkoh@singaporeunbound.org.
- The poem(s) have to be pasted into the physique of the e-mail, along with a cowl letter which ought to embrace your title, mailing handle,and background info.
Essential Discover
- The deadline for submissions is Might fifteenth, 2025.
- Awards of USD300, 200, and 100 will go to the highest three winners.
- The successful poems can be revealed on SP Weblog; non-winning poems can be thought of for publication as nicely.
- The choose is Mandy Moe Pwint Tu.
- Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a pile of ginkgo leaves in a trench coat and the writer of FABLEMAKER (Gaudy Boy, 2025). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Beloit Poetry Journal, Porter Home Evaluation, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her chapbooks, MONSOON DAUGHTER and UNSPRUNG, have been revealed by Thirty West Publishing Home (2022) and Newfound (2023) respectively. She acquired her MFA from the College of Wisconsin-Madison, the place she was the Hoffman-Halls Rising Artist Fellow on the Wisconsin Institute for Artistic Writing. She is from Yangon, Myanmar.
- Judging can be based mostly solely on poetic advantage. The weblog reserves the suitable to not make all or any awards, ought to the standard of entries not advantage them.
Good Luck!
