The contest is organized by Winning Writers.

Deadline
30th September 2019

Who may enter
The competition is open to anyone. No restrictions on age or country. 

Description

You may submit poems on any theme, up to 250 lines each. Poems must be written in English. 

You may submit the same poem simultaneously to this contest and to others, and you may submit poems that have been published or won prizes elsewhere.

Read the winning entries from the 16th contest.

Entry fee 
$12 per poem

Prizes
• The Tom Howard Prize: $2,000 for a poem in any style or genre.
• The Margaret Reid Prize: $2,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. 
For the purpose of the Margaret Reid Prize, a poem in a traditional style employs regular meter and/or rhyme, or is written in a recognized poetic form. This includes traditional Western forms such as ballads, sonnets, and blank verse, and Asian forms such as tanka and haiku.
• Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each (any style).

Website
Please visit HERE to learn more about the competition.