The Tony Quagliano Poetry Award, 2025

This award is established in partnership with the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities. The winner is featured on the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities website and invited to give a poetry reading and workshop with Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities within six months of receiving notification of the award.

Applications will be reviewed by a judge or a panel of judges.

• There is no entry fee.
• Applicants must be a resident of a US state or territory.
• Submissions must be in English.
• Applicants will be judged 75% on quality of published work and 25% on literary community involvement.
• Deadline for Aplication is December 1, 2025

Poets must submit 3 PDF files as described below:

• 20 pages of published or unpublished poetry (Please do not include the name of the poet on any of these pages)
• A statement explaining the applicant’s work to build and strengthen a literary community (i.e., working with local community literary organizations, supporting other writers as a publisher/editor, organizing literary events, teaching or giving workshops in the community, advocating for underserved communities). The applicant’s name should not be included in this statement.
• A bibliography of at least 25 published poems (Published in journals, anthologies, chapbooks, or books — print or online)
  • Include the title and date of each source publication
  • No more than 5 poems should be from any one source
  • The heading of this bibliography should include the name, address, phone number, and email address of the poet

Send all submissions to: tqpoetryaward@hihumanities.org

The Tony Quagliano Poetry Award

Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities

Email: tqpoetryaward@hihumanities.org — or — lruby@hawaii.edu