Yellowwood Poetry
Prize
Yalobusha Review is excited to announce the 2026 Yellowwood Poetry Prize. This year’s judge is CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE. The winner of the Yellowwood Poetry Prize receives $500, as well as publication and an interview in Yalobusha Review. The contest is open February 1st through March 16th.
GUIDELINES
Please submit up to 3 poems, totaling no more than 5 pages, through Submittable. We accept only previously unpublished work. All entries will be considered for general publication.
Only one submission per contestant. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if a piece is selected for publication elsewhere.
Please do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript.
Contest entries must be received by March 16th.
The contest fee is $3.
General submissions will be closed during the contest period.
ELIGIBILITY
YR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with the University of Mississippi or the prize judge, Cody-Rose Clevidence. This includes those who have studied or taught at the University of Mississippi.
Yalobusha Review seeks stories that resist outdated tropes and ideologies, rather than uphold them. Writers of color, women writers, and writers who identify as LGBTQIA+ are especially encouraged to submit. All submissions will be considered for general publication.
FINAL JUDGE
Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of THIS HOUSEHOLD OF EARTHLY NATURE (Roof Books, 2025), Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (Nightboat, 2021), Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021), Flung/Throne (Ahsahta, 2018), and BEAST FEAST (Ahsahta Press, 2014), as well as several chapbooks (Fonograf, flowers and cream, NION, garden door press, Auric). Occasionally a visiting poetry professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop, they live in the Arkansas Ozarks alongside three loyal, sentient pets, and the continuous void.
Barry Hannah Prize
in Fiction
Yalobusha Review is excited to announce the 2026 Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, Named in memoriam, the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction celebrates the best writing, regardless of form or style.
This year’s judge is 2025-26 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence LATOYA WATKINS. The winner of the Barry Hannah Prize receives $500, as well as publication and an interview in Yalobusha Review. The contest is open February 15th through March 16th.
GUIDELINES
Please submit fiction (1 full-length short story, or multiple flash fictions), totaling no more than 5000 words, through Submittable. We accept only previously unpublished work. Although first place is guaranteed for publication, all other entries will also be considered for general publication.
Only one submission per contestant. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if a piece is selected for publication elsewhere.
Please do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript.
Contest entries must be received by March 16th.
The contest fee is $3.
General submissions will be closed during the contest period.
ELIGIBILITY
YR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with the University of Mississippi or the prize judge, LaToya Watkins. This includes those who have studied or taught at the University of Mississippi.
Yalobusha Review seeks stories that resist outdated tropes and ideologies, rather than uphold them. Writers of color, women writers, and writers who identify as LGBTQIA+ are especially encouraged to submit. All submissions will be considered for general publication.
FINAL JUDGE
LaToya Watkins’ writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, Kweli Journal, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Kenyon Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. She is a Kimibilo fellow and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, MacDowell, OMI: Arts, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Camargo Foundation. She is the author of Perish and Holler, Child.