Five Points, the literary journal of Georgia State University, has long been a venue where formal rigor meets a willingness to take risks on the page. The James Dickey Prize for Poetry is not a contest for the tentative; it asks for three poems that stand together as a coherent submission, each under fifty lines, and it reads them blind. The entry fee of $25 includes a one-year subscription to the journal, a gesture that positions the entrant as a reader and participant in the magazine's ongoing conversation rather than a mere supplicant. The prize itself is $1,000, paid upon publication, and the winning poet will be featured in an upcoming issue. But the terms of the contest extend beyond the single winner: the editors state plainly that they will consider publishing poems that were not selected as the winning submission. This is a meaningful detail. It means the jury is not simply looking for one poem that outshines the rest; it is reading for a body of work that might sustain a presence in the journal. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, and the contest is read blind, with the poet's name appearing only on the cover letter. The winner will be announced on the Five Points website by May 2027. The submission window may close early if the volume of entries warrants it, so timeliness matters. The deadline is December 2, 2026. There is no stated theme or aesthetic mandate, which places the burden of coherence on the poet: the three poems should feel like a deliberate sequence, not a sampler. Five Points has historically published work that is attentive to line, image, and the pressures of contemporary life, and this prize seeks poets who understand that a submission is an argument about what poetry can do.