May 25, 2022

The winners of the 92Y Discovery Contest. From top left, clockwise: Jada Renée Allen, Sasha Burshteyn, April Goldman, Kristina Martino.

For close to seven decades, 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest has recognized the exceptional work of poets who have not yet published a first book. Many of these writers—John Ashbery, Mark Strand, Lucille Clifton, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Mary Jo Bang, Solmaz Sharif, and Diana Khoi Nguyen, among many others—have gone on to become leading voices in their generations.

This year’s competition received close to a thousand submissions, which were read by the preliminary judges, Sumita Chakraborty and Timothy Donnelly. After much deliberating, the final judges—Victoria Chang, Brian Teare, and Phillip B. Williams—awarded this year’s prizes to Jada Renée Allen, Sasha Burshteyn, April Goldman, and Kristina Martino. The runners-up are Jae Nichelle and Daniel Shonning. The Paris Review Daily is pleased to to publish the poems of this year’s winners.

August 31, 2017

Contests

Emoji Poetry Contest, Part 2

By Nadja Spiegelman and Rosa Rankin-Gee

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful,” said Rita Dove, though we’d like to argue that it could be distilled even further, into Emojis. Yes, it’s time for another round of our translations of celebrated poems into pictograms. Can you guess the following famous verses? The first ten people to name all three poems correctly will win a copy of our Summer issue (no. 221)—you can submit your answers here. We’ve included the answers to the first round below.

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August 22, 2017

Contests

#ReadEverywhere Photo Contest

By The Paris Review

Two handsome reviews on the shores of Rydal Water, in the UK.

Our dual-subscription deal with the London Review of Books is in its final days, but don’t worry—there’s still time to sign up! Act quickly and you can get a one-year subscription to both The Paris Review and the London Review of Books, along with access to our digital archives, all for just $80. (Already a Paris Review subscriber? Great—we’ll extend your subscription for another year, and your LRB subscription will begin immediately.)

Every summer, in conjunction with the deal, we hold a photo contest, asking our readers one question, “Where are you reading?” Subscribers, readers, and friends are invited to post a photo of someone reading the London Review of Books or The Paris Review anywhere in the world for a chance to win a selection of prizes from our partners at Aesop.

To participate, simply enter your photo on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram using #readeverywhere (and please remember to tag us! @LRB or @ParisReview).

The contest expires at the end of August. Happy posting.

Here are some of this year’s best entries so far: Read More

August 18, 2017

Contests

Emoji Poetry Contest

By Nadja Spiegelman and Rosa Rankin-Gee

T. S. Eliot once said, “Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.” But he forgot to add: “And millennial poets translate poems into emojis.” Can you guess the following famous verses? The first ten people to name all three poems correctly will win a copy of our Summer issue (no. 221)—you can send your answers to [email protected]. If you can’t guess, why not transpose them back to verse? It is, after all, National Bad Poetry Day.

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November 21, 2016

Contests

Win Free Tickets to 92Y’s Celebration of Albert Murray

By The Paris Review

On Monday, November 28, 92Y will host Renata Adler, Paul Devlin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Wynton Marsalis, and Ayana Mathis for a celebration of Albert Murray, the critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer, who died in 2013. The Library of America has just published Murray’s Collected Essays and Memoirs. “His writing about racism can prickle your skin,” Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times. “To paraphrase Murray’s praise of Ellison’s Invisible Man, reading this book is like watching someone take a twelve-bar blues song and score it for a full orchestra.”

You can enter here to win two free tickets to Monday’s event from The Paris Review and 92Y. We’ll notify the winners this Friday, November 25. Thanks and good luck!

October 5, 2016

Contests

This Year’s #ReadEverywhere Contest Winners

By The Paris Review

This summer we invited you to #ReadEverywhere with The Paris Review and the London Review of Books. And guess what? We did it. We read literally everywhere. Good work, everyone.

The time has come to announce our contest winners, so that they may become the envy of their communities.

THIRD RUNNER-UP: When he’s not softening the image of a certain multinational entertainment conglomerate, this mouse man beheads himself and settles down with the London Review of Books. For his willingness to do this in public, he’ll receive a bundle of swag from the LRB and The Paris Review. (T-shirts, vintage back issues, fancy office supplies, and the like.) Kudos, mouse man!