Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2025!

Submit up to three original unpublished poems at https://redwheelbarrow.submittable.com/submit

Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2025, 11:59 p.m. (PDT)
Final Judge: Stephen Kuusisto

Three prizes: $1,000, $500, $250

Letterpress broadside of the winning poem will be made by Gary Young, Greenhouse Review Press.

Winners & Finalists published in Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.

One $15 submission fee good for all 3 poems; upload all poems in one file, please. Each poem must fit onto one 8.5 x 11 page. Yes, simultaneous submissions accepted. No author name on text or in file name.

Co-sponsors: Poetry Center San José & Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine.

Finalists announced September 15th, winners October 1st.

Stephen Kuusisto holds a “University Professorship” at Syracuse where he teaches across multiple disciplines and serves as the Director of the Burton Blatt Institute’s interdisciplinary programs. He’s the author of the memoirs Planet of the Blind (a “New York Times Notable Book”) and Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening as well as Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey. His previous collections of poems include Only Bread, Only Light, Letters to Borges, and Old Horse, What is to Be Done? His latest book, Close Escapes will be published by Copper Canyon Press in the spring of 2025.