Every spring, phoebe hosts contests in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, each with a $500 prize. Submissions for the 2023 contest issue are now open until March 15 at midnight. Visit our Submittable page to enter and learn more about our contest judges.

2022 Contest Winners

Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

Winner: New Theories About (Our Obsession With) the Moon by Katherine Huang

 

First Runner-up: Crepe Myrtles and All Those Other Blooming Trees by Hannah V. Warren

 

Second Runner-up: Lament by Lydia Golitz 

 

Honorable Mention: Adam in Eden by Shay Swindlehurst

Fiction Contest

Winner: A Bed Filled with Birds by Faith Shearin

 

Runner Up: The Lost Girls of Lupine Cabin by Anna Sheffer

Nonfiction Contest

Winner: Ariel by Lucien Darjeun Meadows

 

Runner Up: The Lost Girls of Lupine Cabin by Anna Sheffer

2021 Contest Winners

Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

Winner: Tire Chains by David Rock

 

Runner Up: The Twins by Benjamin Niespodziany

Fiction Contest

The Light. Breathing by Gregg Maxwell Parker

Nonfiction Contest

Winner: Welcome to Bad Mom Club by Marne Litfin

 

Runner Up: Memories of Ace, in Reverse Chronological Order by Megan Falle

 

Finalist: Another Word for Gone by Jessica Rapisarda

2020 Contest Winners

Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

Winner: MACHINE by Jake Bauer

 

Honorable Mention: Oil Painting of a Hand Holding a Taxidermied Bluebird by Gustav Parker Hibbett

Fiction Contest

It’s a Phase by Kevin Sterne

Nonfiction Contest

Manhunt by Kira Homsher