The 2024 Prize is Open!
Submit to the 2024 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize! Judged this year by Rena Priest, contest submissions will be accepted through May 15.
The winner will receive $500 cash prize, and the winner and finalists will be published in our Fall issue. All submissions are considered for publication. Submission fee is $16 and supports our ongoing work to remain a print journal and offer free submission periods each fall Rena Priest is an enrolled member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She served as the 6th Washington State Poet Laureate (2021-2023) and, most recently, as a judge for the 2024 National Book Award. She is the editor of the anthology I Sing the Salmon Home, which won the 2024 Washington State Book Award. Priest’s other honors include an American Book Award, an Allied Arts Professional Poets Award, and residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, Storyknife, Indigenous Nations Poets, the Academy of American Poets, the Vadon Foundation, and the University of Washington Libraries. Her work appears widely online and in print. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College (2008) and lives in Bellingham, Washington. Learn more at renapriest.com The Poetry Prize will open February 15. There is a $16 submission fee, submissions will only be accepted on Submittable. See our full guidelines here. Rest In Peace, Martha Silano
It is with great sadness all of us at Crab Creek Review mourn the passing of the phenomenal Martha Silano.
Martha Silano served as the poetry editor for Crab Creek Review from 2013–2018. In that time, she brought us outstanding poems, interviews, and book reviews. She set a tone that would establish the caliber of work we publish today and forever shaped Crab Creek Review. Martha Silano’s poetry collections include Terminal Surreal (Acre Books, 2025), Last Train to Paradise: New and Selected Poems (Saturnalia Books, 2025), This One We Call Ours (Lynx House Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize, Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books, 2019), Reckless Lovely(Saturnalia Books, 2014), and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (Saturnalia Books, 2011). Her awards include North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award.
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