First Prize: $1,000.  You may submit up to five previously unpublished poems in a Word document. All contact information should be entered in your cover letter. No names or addresses should appear on manuscripts. In Submittable’s title field, please list the titles of your poems. Your poems will be assigned log numbers so they can be read blind. Simultaneous submission to other journals or competitions is allowed with notice should your poems be accepted elsewhere. All finalist poems will be published, and all entrants will receive the Spring issue of NAR.

Current University of Northern Iowa students are not eligible to submit.

Final Judge: Natalie Diaz
DEADLINE: submit by November 1, 2021.

If you are unable to submit or pay via the online submission manager, please email nar@uni.edu for assistance or alternate submission and payment options. You will receive acknowledgment of receipt via email after your submission has been completed. Winners will also be announced in the writers’ trade magazines and on our website.