We are honoured to share the longlist for the 7th edition of The International Metatron Prize.

This year, we received an incredible number of submissions — manuscripts full of wildness, clarity, care, and invention. The twenty-two longlisted works below represent a powerful cross-section of today’s poetic imagination. Our deepest gratitude to everyone who trusted us with their work.

The Longlist:

  • anxiety dream ❋ Hadiyyah Kuma

  • Chest (by Treasure) ❋ Trevor Bashaw

  • Cut From: Poetry from a Critic’s Notebook ❋ Tiana Reid

  • Designated Stranger ❋ Gion Davis

  • Don’t Ask Do Tell ❋ Noah Sparrow

  • Exposure ❋ Umang Kalra

  • Fool’s Errand ❋ Casper Lucia

  • Full Bleed ❋ Stevie Belchak

  • Ghosts of the Glamour Dictatorship ❋ Devin Wangert

  • Guilt, Fear, and Superstition ❋ Claire Dougherty

  • HOSPITALITY ❋ Emmett Lewis

  • Hot Dates, Dates With Friends, & More ❋ Audrey Whitesides

  • Last Legs ❋ Megan Freshley

  • Professions ❋ Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo

  • Reflections of Light on Water ❋ Tatum Howey

  • The Areola Diaries ❋ Stevie Belchak

  • The Break-Up Book ❋ Becca Klaver

  • the compulser ❋ Jenkin Benson

  • The Goat’s Tongue ❋ Oluwasun Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye

  • The season of lilacs is monstrous ❋ Francesca Kritikos

  • There’s A Crude Bloom To The Pear Trees ❋ Em Frank

  • Thinking in Public ❋ Molly Schaeffer

Thank you to every poet who submitted to this year’s Prize. Stay tuned for our Finalists!