Iowa Review

ach January since 2003, The Iowa Review has invited submissions to The Iowa Review Awards, a writing contest in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive $1,500; first runners-up receive $750. Winners and runners-up are published in each December issue.

Previous Iowa Review Awards winners and runners-up are not eligible to enter the contest.

Current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Iowa are not eligible to enter the contest. University of Iowa students must wait three years after graduation to submit to the Iowa Review Awards.

Work is ineligible to win our contest if it is slated for publication before December 2025, whether in another magazine or as part of a book. Please withdraw work from our contest immediately if these conditions apply.

Judges are instructed not to award the prize to entrants with whom they have had a personal or professional relationship.

Iowa Review Awards

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

submittable link: https://iowareview.submittable.com/submit

Submit up to 25 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (one poem or several, but no more than one poem per page). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance elsewhere.

Iowa Review Awards

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