The 2026 Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award
Now Open
$2,500 plus 50 copies
Eligibility
Poets who make their home in Alaska, Oregon, or Washington (part-time or full-time, regardless of previous publication history) and will continue to do so for all of 2027 are eligible.
Deadline: May 31, 2026
Manuscript
48 to 68 pages of poems (not including front or back matter) formatted as a doc, docx, or rtf file.
Do not include your name or any identifying information in the manuscript.
Entry fee: $10
All entries must be submitted online via Submittable.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Winner will be announced in September 2026 with publication in 2027.
In addition to prize money, the winner will receive 50 copies of their published collection.
All entrants will receive a copy of Sally Albiso's collection Light Entering My Bones.
All manuscripts will be considered for publication in 2027 by MoonPath Press.
Contest Judge
The winning entry for 2026 will be chosen by Annette Sisson. Close associates or students of the judge are not eligible to enter.About Sally Albiso
This award honors the exquisite poetry of MoonPath Press author Sally Albiso, who passed away in 2019. The award is endowed by her husband John Albiso.
View a list of previous winners from 2020-2025.
Though born in Maine and mostly raised in southern California, Sally’s passionate pursuit of poetry began in earnest shortly after she moved to Port Angeles, Washington in 2003. In her first year of writing, she won First Place in the Tide Pools adult poetry contest. She went on to win several other poetry contests, including the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Prize and several other national poetry contests. Sally was published in numerous poetry journals, and had three chapbooks published, followed by Moonless Grief, her first full-length poetry collection published by MoonPath Press in 2018.
Sally loved Port Angeles and the Olympic Peninsula and all it has to offer. In addition to hiking, kayaking, fishing and crabbing, Sally volunteered at the Port Angeles Visitor Center and the North Olympic Library branch in Port Angeles.
Sally died at home in Port Angeles, Washington on October 28, 2019, after a more than 14- month battle with pancreatic cancer, her loving husband John of nearly 31 years at her side.
Sally’s obituary in the Peninsula Daily News
Read more about Sally and Moonless Grief here on the MoonPath Press site.
Questions? email MoonPathPress@gmail.com
