Get your poetry manuscripts polished up! Metatron Press is ecstatic to announce that our beloved Metatron Prize is officially back after a hiatus. Our sixth edition of The International Metatron Poetry Prize (formerly The Metatron Prize for Rising Authors) for full-length poetry manuscripts opens on July 21, 2024 and closes on September 17, 2024.
❋ 1ST PLACE ❋
$777 advance, Metatron publishing contract, 25 author copies (worth $450), international distribution + publicity
❋ 8 FINALISTS ❋
Featured in a Metatron Prize special feature in 2025
All submissions will automatically be entered into our raffle. $100 gift certificates will be awarded to 3 randomly-selected winners, which will be announced alongside the winner of the prize in Spring 2025.
❋ SUBMIT ❋
This year our judge is none other than Nigerian-American artist and poet, Precious Okoyomon! They join a rich history of guest judges, including Fariha Roísín, Marlowe Granados, CAConrad and Anne Boyer.
Precious Okoyomon (B. 1993) is a Nigerian-American poet and artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life. In their practice, organic materials serve a dual purpose: they remind us of our violent histories but also celebrate nature’s ability to adapt and flourish in the face of man-made crises. If their work continually asks us to listen to the natural world, it also contains warnings of what might happen should we fail to act.
They have had institutional solo exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau in Zurich (2018), the Museum Für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2020), Performance Space New York (2021), the Aspen Art Museum (2021-2022), and the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid Foundation (2024). They were included in the Thailand Biennial (2024), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), the Okayama Art Summit (2022), the 58th Belgrade Biennial (2021) as well as group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021), and Luma Arles, France (2021). Major performances have been commissioned by the Serpentine Galleries, London (2019) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2019). Their second book But Did U Die? will be co-published by the Serpentine and Wonder Press in 2024.
METATRON PRESS + THE METATRON PRIZE
Metatron Press of Montréal [is] one of the great small presses making this present moment a surprisingly exciting one for poetry.
— Los Angeles Review of Books
Metatron Press is an award-winning literary publisher based in Montréal, Quebec that specializes in publishing strange and moving books of poetry, fiction, and hybrid texts by rising authors as well as curating various literary projects and events.
Since 2014, Metatron has published beautifully designed books from a new generation of writers who re-imagine the possibilities of language and reshape the way we think and connect. While we are known for our queer, edgy, forward-thinking, and community-centered approach to poetry, we also publish award-winning novellas, hybrid works, short story collections, ebooks, and audiobooks.
The Metatron Prize was founded in 2015 as a means to discover and support more writers outside of our publishing program in Canada and has contributed to six fantastic debut collections:
The Choice Is Real by Jayson Keery (USA)
Little Fury by Casey Bell (USA)
bédayine by Kaitlyn Purcell (Canada)
number one earth by jasper avery (USA)
Soft Focus by Sarah Jean Grimm (USA)
Pony Castle by Sofia Banzhaf (Canada)
❋ SUBMIT ❋
