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
2021 Contest Winners
Greg Grummer Poetry Contest
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