2nd-Year MFA student Sydney Mayes awarded Only Poems prize for “Poet of the Year”
Sydney Mayes has been named the 2024 “Poet of the Year” by literary magazine Only Poems. The prize is for $3000. Congratulations, Sydney!Sydney Mayes is a second-year poetry MFA candidate from Denver, Colorado. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Winner of the 2021 Iowa Chapbook Prize, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Booth, The Iowa Review Blog, The Indianapolis Revies, Denver Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. She also participated in the 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop. For more information about Sydney and to read her work, visit the links below.
Prize Winners: https://www.onlypoems.net/2024/poetry-prize-winners
About Sydney: https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/sydney-mayes