ABOUT FUTUREPOEM 

Futurepoem books is a New York City-based non-profit publishing collaborative dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose by both emerging and important underrepresented writers. We offer two yearly opportunities for publication. Subscribe to our email list for more info about upcoming submission opportunities, or check back with this site.

THE OTHER FUTURES AWARD

The Other Futures Award is given annually to an innovative, adventurous full-length work that challenges conventions of genre and language, content and form. We are interested in writing that imagines new lived or literary possibilities, and questions established paradigms. The winner will receive publication with Futurepoem and an honorarium of $1000. The Other Futures Award opens each summer for submissions.

FUTUREPOEM OPEN READING PERIOD

Our open reading period opens for submissions each winter. Each year, we invite a rotating panel of distinguished guest editors to read and select two new books for publication. Futurepoem welcomes unpublished, full-length manuscripts of poetry, prose, and multi-genre work that challenge and expand on the potential for poetic form, language, and process. Work by underrepresented and emerging writers is especially welcome. Our guest editors for 2023 were Gabriela Jáuregui, Shiv Kotecha, and Ronaldo V. Wilson.