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Grid Books
Grid Books is a nonprofit publisher foregrounding creative work from the margins across poetry, fiction, fine art, and projects involving oral history and exchange between generations. Founded as Off the Grid Press in 2003 and relaunched as Grid Books in 2015, it maintains the Off the Grid Poetry Prize for older poets.
Open to poets
- Off the Grid Poetry Prize. Usually May 1–August 31; last stated dates are 2026. Currently closed. Exact next-cycle dates await clarification.. Fee: $25; waived for EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders. Request the waiver at info@grid-books.org.. Pays: $1,000 and publication, promotion, and distribution in print and audiobook formats..
- Book and project proposals. Proposals invited; no closing date announced..
Official site: grid-books.org. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
Checked 2026-11-11. Find more places to send your poems on Poetry Marketplace, free.
More places to send your poems
- Griffel
- Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
- Griffith Review
- Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts
- GROUND
- Grub Street