This year's contest will be judged by poet Marianne Boruch.

The Off the Grid Poetry Prize:

1. The competition is open only to poets aged 60 years or older.
2. Submissions will be open from May 1 to August 31, 2023. The winner will be announced by December 31, 2023.
3. The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in print and audiobook formats. The entry fee is $25.
4. Manuscripts must be typed, paginated, and at least 50 pages in length. Manuscripts must have a table of contents and include a list of acknowledgments for poems previously published. There should be one title page with the book title only. All contact information (name, address, phone, email) should be included in the cover letter submitted via Submittable. Manuscripts will be read blind and therefore should not include any information that identifies authorship.
5. Individual poems from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Previously self-published books are not eligible.
6. Please submit online via Submittable.
7. If, in our judgment, no submission is worthy of publication, the press reserves the right not to publish any book.
8. Send inquiries to info@grid-books.org.

We are seeking work that is ripened in craft and vision, by poets whose writing practice is ongoing and whose vision is fresh while drawing from six or more decades of lived experience.