The Vincent Poetry Prize

$500 prize for the winning poem
$200 for the Editors’ Choice
Judge: Julia Bouwsma, Maine Poet Laureate, 2021-26

Submissions Open May 1-31, 2026, or until cap of 200 is reached

The Vincent Poetry Prize will be awarded to one poem of exceptional vision and quality that is in conversation with a poem by Millay. We encourage you to read the poems of Millay and consider her obsessions, for example, poems of place, eros, and political protest, and poems in the sonnet form. Each poem submitted must use a line from a poem by Millay.

We’re announcing the Vincent Poetry Prize in April to give writers time to develop poems in response to Vincent. 

Poems will be juried by Millay House Rockland board members and judged by a Maine poet of note. 

The winning poem, along with the Editors’ Choice and honorable mentions, will be announced by the end of July and published online in the summer edition of The Third Fig Review, the literary journal of Millay House Rockland. An online launch reading to celebrate the winning poems and poets will be held in late summer.