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The 2024 William Matthews Poetry Prize Winners, selected by David Kirby
Mary Makofske, from Warwick, NY, is awarded first prize for her poem, “Sex, That Peacock,” and will receive $1000, plus publication in Asheville Poetry Review (Vol. 31, Issue 33, 2024), which will be released in December, 2024.
Second prize is awarded to Paul Alexander, from Forest Hills, NY, for his poem, “Only in Darkness Can You See the Stars” He will receive $250, as well as publication.
Craig Van Rooyen resides on the central coast of California. He is the third prize recipient for his poem “Daylight Savings Poem,” and he will also be published in our next issue.
The next reading period for the William Matthews Poetry Prize is from September 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025. The final judge will be Nickole Brown. For complete guidelines, visit ashevillepoetryreview.submittable.com.
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The 2025 William Matthews Poetry Prize
First Prize: $1,000, publication in Asheville Poetry Review, and a featured reading in Asheville
Second Prize: $250, publication, and a featured reading in Asheville
Third Prize: Publication and a featured reading in Asheville
Judge for 2025: Nickole Brown
The final judge will read anonymous manuscripts (all identifying information will be removed from the poems).
All submissions will be considered for publication.
Submission Deadline: January 15 of each year.
Send 1-3 poems, any style, any theme, any length, with a $20 entry fee.
Online submissions only, through Submittable:
Back issue content recently added
The Asheville Poetry Review website is in the process of an all-inclusive update. Our mission is to make all of the content of our back issues available online, creating an archive that contains the complete publishing history of our first fifteen years, dating from our first issue, published in June 1994. We thank you for your patience as we update this site.
Below you’ll find links to the most recently added poetry, reviews, essays and interviews.
The Angels of Our Expectations
The Fiction of History
Double Elegy: for a Child, for an Old Man
Morning Of The Duel
Caleb
Of Flesh and Heaven
Never Too Late
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For Camilla Wren McDaniel
— translated from the Latin by A. E. Stallings
Existence
— translated from the Spanish by Louis Bourne