The Waywiser Press

30/10/2025

this will be you if you forget to submit your manuscript to the Hecht prize before the deadline (DECEMBER 1ST!!!)

Go to waywiserbooks.org 📖📚

29/10/2025

Coming soon from Waywiser Books!

28/10/2025

Cover reveal! Might Could by is the winner of the 20th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and will be published in March 2026. Submit your manuscript to the 21st prize at waywiserbooks.org!

21/10/2025

Winner of the 16th annual Anthony Hecht Prize, peep by 👀 We are currently accepting ms. submissions for this year’s prize! Submit at waywiserbooks.org before December 1st 📖

21/10/2025

19/10/2025

Winner of the 19th annual Anthony Hecht Prize, by Julia Thacker 🌿🌱🍃 We are currently accepting ms. submissions for this year’s prize! Submit at waywiserbooks.org before December 1st 📖

18/10/2025

“A Friend Killed in the War” by Anthony Hecht

17/10/2025

books!

16/10/2025

01/09/2025

The 21st annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize contest is now open! Poets with no more than one published collection, submit between now and and Dec. 1. This year's judge is A.E. Stallings, and the winner will read together with the judge at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The winning book will be published by Waywiser Books, Waywiser Press's US-based successor press.

The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize The Contest is Open! Submissions can be made through Submittable from September 1 through December 1. Questions can be directed to [email protected]. Deadline: Midnight (EST) on December 1Submission Fee: $29Judge: A.E. Stallings Winners receive: $3000 paid upon r...