BARROW STREET
"If focus is the key to success, Barrow Street is throwing straight bullseyes." - New Pages
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Poetry Book Contest
Our distinguished judge, John Murillo, has chosen Pagan Era by Phillip Schaefer as the winner of our 2025 Poetry Book Prize. This year’s Editors' Prize has been awarded to SOMEWHERE HORSES by Jasmine Khaliq and Hurt Music by Genevieve Payne. 2026 contest guidelines coming soon.
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Prose Book Contest
We are thrilled to announce we will be publishing Spare by Michelle Lewis as part of the new Barrow Street Prose Series.
Details about future Contests coming soon! Prose Book Contest Guidelines will be updated shortly.
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Barrow Street Journal
We are very pleased to announce that our Winter 2024/2025 issue is here and contains work from 40 poets.
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Poems from the Journal
Read current and former contributors online.
About Us
Barrow Street Inc. is a nonprofit literary arts organization that was started in Greenwich Village, NYC in 1994 to provide community outreach and host literary events featuring emerging and established poets.








