Who fares best, entrants from the Open Competition or the nominations from literary magazines and writing programs?
In 2008, we selected 24 of our 50 poems from the Open Competition. The numbers from our 2006 and 2007 editions were comparable. You can read a complete demographic breakdown of the 2006 edition here. Statistically, nominations from literary magazines have the greatest percentage of acceptance, but this makes sense: these poems have already been published by some of North America’s best magazines.
