The Adroit Prizes are awarded annually to two students of secondary or undergraduate status. The Adroit Journal receives exceptional work from emerging writers in high school and college, and the best of the best will be recognized by the Adroit Prizes. All secondary and undergraduate students are able to apply.
Winners will be awarded $200, and their work—along with the work of runners-up—will be featured in the Adroit Journal. Runners-up and finalists will receive a copy of their judges’ latest book.
Location(s)
Schedule
- Entry forms open in the spring.
Cost/Compensation
- $15 submission fee
Eligibility Requirements
- Applicants must be high school students or undergraduate students (those who have graduated a semester early are eligible)
- International students are welcome.
Deadline
- Deadlines are typically in April or May
Application or Entry Requirements
- Submissions may include up to six poems (maximum of 10 pages single-spaced) and/or up to three works of prose (combined word limit of 3,500 words). Excerpts of longer works are acceptable.
- Please note that all submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter and brief third-person biography statement, and that (unless otherwise stated) we ask for First North American Rights to publish writing.
- Simultaneous submissions—as well as submissions that have been recognized by other organizations and/or featured in campus-wide publications—are accepted, provided that simultaneously submitted work is acknowledged as such in the cover letter portion of the submission. Submitters should reach out promptly by adding a note to their submission on Submittable if work under consideration is accepted elsewhere.
- All submissions will be considered for publication in the Adroit Journal. Please submit no more than two (2) times per genre per reading period. Additional submissions will be returned unread.
Notifications of Decisions
- Winners are announced on Adroit Journal website around mid to late July.
Financial Aid Details
- Fee Waiver form available here.
Other Dates to Keep in Mind
- Fee Waiver Form Deadline: End of May
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The Adroit Journal is a quarterly literary and arts magazine that was founded in 2010 by poet Peter LaBerge. At its foundation, the journal seeks to showcase what its global staff of emerging writers sees as the future of poetry, prose, and art. Adroit has published numerous United States Poets Laureate, MacArthur Fellows, and Pulitzer Prize winners, and contributors are regularly recognized by the Best American Series, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Fellowships in Poetry and Fiction, the Whiting Foundation’s Whiting Awards, and many more organizations that offer industry-leading funding and support. The Adroit champions work that’s bizarre, authentic, subtle, outrageous, indefinable, raw, and paradoxical.
