PSA ANNOUNCEMENT

PSA: Announcing the World's Smallest INTERNATIONAL prize for a Single book of Poetry
The Phoenix Poetry Prize - an independent poetry prize with no other affiliations - is one of the world’s poorest poetry awards. Celebrating the arrival of its 2-day anniversary having risen from the ashes and survived, it is announcing its largest, but still miniscule award to date.

The Phoenix Poetry Prize will be COMBINING all of its existing prizes into one exciting major prize awarded to a poet somewhere on the face of the globe. One winner will take home the top $250 prize, the gift cards from the Mother-in-Law and Foster Mom's choice awards, and ALL the fan-mail letters from the Super Honorable Mentions category regardless of who the intended recipients of those letters are. This makes it the world’s most pathetic international prize for a poetry book written in English or French. The other shortlisted poets will each receive a Phoenix Poetry Prize sticker for participation.

Due to the now international nature of this dazzling award, we will say that while we are operating on unceded and unsurrendered lands that Canada violently stole and continues to steal from Indigenous peoples, we cannot guarantee that Canadian poets will be awarded this prize. That said, if a Canadian poet were to move out of the country and change their nationality, and become say, Swedish, that would improve their odds of getting recognized by this award significantly.

Here is what founder Isabella has to say about her decision to go international, without consultation from any of the Phoenix's board members:
"Poetry is a lot of potatoes, and every culture and country has a different way of enjoying potatoes. If we only support Canadian potatoes, we will eventually be sick of poutine."

Happy April Fools, and thanks for supporting Phoenix Poetry Prize's humble beginnings.