The 2025 Yellowwood Poetry Prize

Submissions are open February 1 – April 1. 

 

Yalobusha Review is excited to announce the 2025 Yellowwood Poetry Prize. This year’s judge is A. H. Jerriod Avant. The winner of the Yellowwood Poetry Prize receives $500, as well as publication and an interview in YR:41. The contest is open February 1 through April 1.

 

 

A. H. Jerriod Avant was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. His first book, Muscadine, (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 2024 Mississippi Institute of the Arts and Letters Poetry Award. A graduate of Jackson State University, Jerriod has earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. A graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, he’s received scholarships from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference and Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. A former resident at the James Castle House and Vermont Studio Center, Jerriod has received two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and an emerging artist grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. His work has appeared in the Boston Review, Pinwheel, Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, Obsidian, The Yale Review, and other journals. Jerriod’s work has been produced in collaboration with the Emily Harvey Foundation, the Highline NYC, and the Kitchen Lab. Jerriod is the 2024-2025 John and Renee Grisham Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi.

 

 

 

Guidelines
  • Please submit up to 3 poems, totaling no more than 5 pages, through Submittable. We accept only previously unpublished work. All entries will be considered for general publication.
  • Only one submission per contestant. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if a piece is selected for publication elsewhere.
  • Please do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript.
  • Contest entries must be received by April 1.
  • The contest fee is $3.
  • General submissions will be closed during the contest period.

 

Eligibility

YR cannot consider work from anyone affiliated with the University of Mississippi or the prize judge.


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Previous Winners

2023

“City of 100 Lakes” by Parker Logan

Judged by C.T. Salazar

 

2022

“The Holocene, with Figurative Language” by Matthew Tuckner

Judged by Paige Lewis

 

2021

“Disorder” by Erica Reid

Judged by Matthew Olzmann