THE RICHARD MATHEWS PRIZE FOR POETRY
Book Publication • $2,000 Award • Selected Poems in Tampa Review •
Reading period September 1 – December 31
Winning manuscripts are issued in print editions and authors receive royalties on sales in addition to the cash award. Each entrant will receive one issue of Tampa Review (mailed to any U.S. address; international subscribers will receive a digital issue). The manuscripts by Prize winners represent a range from first books to new titles by well-published poets. The work of previous winners of the Richard Mathews Prize for Poetry (formerly called the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry) can be found on the University of Tampa Press website.
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Submit to the Richard Mathews Prize for Poetry.
THE DANAHY FICTION PRIZE
$1,000 Award • Publication in Tampa Review • One issue of Tampa Review • Reading period September 1 – December 31
The Danahy Fiction Prize is an award of $1,000 and publication in Tampa Review given annually for a previously unpublished work of short fiction. Each entrant also receives one issue of Tampa Review (mailed to any U.S. address; international subscribers will receive a digital issue).
Please read our publication ethics statement before submitting and note that we follow COPE Guidelines on AI usage: “Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.”