May 23, 2022

Award Winners from the Poetry Center at PCCC


The Poetry Center at PCCC annually sponsors three literary contests and awards prizes for each.  The 2022 winners and finalists have been announced. Follow these links for press releases on each award and complete lists of the authors, poems, and books.

Paterson Poetry Prize - $1,000 award for a book of poems, 48 pages or more in length, selected by our judges as the strongest collection of poems published in the previous year.

The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People - There is a $1000 award in each category: Pre-K - Grade 3;  Grades 4 - 6;  Grades 7 - 12.

Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards - Honoring Allen Ginsberg’s contribution to American literature and his Paterson upbringing, this annual poetry competition awards a first prize of $1000, the second prize of $600, and the third prize of $400 for a single poem. 


Detailed information on all the three awards including submission guidelines for the 2023 awards is available at poetrycenterpccc.com/awards 

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