The Inkhorn Prizes Inkhorn Review Gold Star Program Gold Star

The Inkhorn Prizes are awarded annually by Inkhorn Review, a quarterly journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. The Inkhorn Prize for Prose carries an award of $1,000; the Inkhorn Prize for Poetry, $500.

Winners are published in a quarterly online issue and in the Review's annual print edition.

Shortlists in both categories are announced publicly before the winners.

All entries are also considered for regular publication at our usual pay rates, and entry fees are refunded if we publish a piece.

Judges to be announced.

Up to three poems in a single document. Any length, any form.

Yes. We assume you're submitting elsewhere.

If you place one with another journal, withdraw it here and we'll keep reading the rest.

We don't accept previously published work.

A personal blog, newsletter, or public social media post counts as published. Workshop and private-group sharing does not.

We publish human writing.

Please don't send work generated by AI, in whole or in part. We're not talking about your spell-checker. The line we care about is the one drawn by the Authors Guild in its AI Best Practices for Authors: the words and the thinking should be yours.

Shortlist will be announced in April, winners in May.

We acquire first serial rights and the right to include accepted work in our annual print edition and anthologies drawn from our archives. All other rights revert to the author on publication.

Accepted work appears in the next available space and stays in our online archive. Once a year, we assemble a printed annual from the online issues; that selection is editorial and separate.

Full rights language is available at inkhornreview.com/submissions.

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The Inkhorn Prizes are awarded annually by Inkhorn Review, a quarterly journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. The Inkhorn Prize for Prose carries an award of $1,000; the Inkhorn Prize for Poetry, $500.

Winners are published in a quarterly online issue and in the Review's annual print edition.

Shortlists in both categories are announced publicly before the winners.

All entries are also considered for regular publication at our usual pay rates, and entry fees are refunded if we publish a piece.

Judges to be announced.

Up to three flash pieces (under 300 words) or one longer piece up to 5000 words.

Yes. We assume you're submitting elsewhere.

If you place one with another journal, withdraw it here and we'll keep reading the rest.

We don't accept previously published work.

A personal blog, newsletter, or public social media post counts as published. Workshop and private-group sharing does not.

We publish human writing.

Please don't send work generated by AI, in whole or in part. We're not talking about your spell-checker. The line we care about is the one drawn by the Authors Guild in its AI Best Practices for Authors: the words and the thinking should be yours.

Shortlist will be announced in April, winners in May.

We acquire first serial rights and the right to include accepted work in our annual print edition and anthologies drawn from our archives. All other rights revert to the author on publication.

Accepted work appears in the next available space and stays in our online archive. Once a year, we assemble a printed annual from the online issues; that selection is editorial and separate.

Full rights language is available at inkhornreview.com/submissions.

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