•  $50 Winning Prize  
•  $20 for Honorable Mentions  
•  Free Entry  
•  Prior Publication Okay
•  Ends Sunday, Results by Next Sunday

Each week's Winner will receive a $50 cash prize, sent via PayPal to the user's registered e-mail address. Entry is free. 
 
There may occasionally be one or more additional poems that receive an Honorable Mention. This will not necessarily be awarded every week, but when awarded, the poet(s) will receive a $20 cash prize, sent via PayPal to the user's registered e-mail address. All Winners and Honorable Mentions will be eligible to be included in future print anthologies.
 
Any type of poem is welcome! Formal or informal, long or short, rhyme or free verse, haiku or epic—we like all kinds of poems. 
 
Each week's winner will be selected by Poetry Nook's editorial staff within seven days of contest end. Contest winners can be found in the Contest Winners forum; Honorable Mentions can be found in the Honorable Mentions forum.

Note: Most literary magazines consider web-published poems to be "published" and will not consider those poems, so if you want to publish a poem in a literary magazine, we recommend that you wait until it is published and are allowed to re-publish before submitting here.
 

Rules
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1. Any length.
2. Any theme.
3. You must be a registered user of this site to post (registration is free).
4. By posting you certify that this is your own work, you hold the copyright, and you are granting us permission to publish it on our site and in a printed anthology.
5. Prior publication is fine, as long as you hold the rights to republish. Please credit the prior publication beneath the poem, in italics.
6. Posting on social media or other sites is encouraged. We actively follow user likes and insightful comments on the poems.
7. Non-English poems are welcome as long as you have an English translation beneath it.
8. Winners will be announced within seven days of the contest end. For example, if the contest ends on Sunday, the winner will be announced by the following Sunday.
9. Payments will be made only via Paypal, sent to your registered email address within one week after the winner is announced. The recipient is responsible for any Paypal fees. We will not send payment by any other method.
10. No feedback will be provided if your poem did not get chosen.
11. If your poem did not get chosen in a given week, you are welcome to resubmit it in a subsequent week.
12. Poets with winning or honorable mention poems are welcome to enter subsequent contests with a different poem. A poem that has already won or earned an honorable mention will be disqualifiied if entered into  subsequent contest. 
13. We recommend copying your poem into the editor from Notepad or some other program that does not add text markup for best formatting results. Please review your formatting after posting to make sure it looks how you want it to look. In the worst case scenario, if you can't get line breaks to work correctly, please disable rich text.
14. Every contest begins on Monday at 12:00 AM and ends on Sunday at 11:59 PM (New York time).
 
Thank you for participating! We look forward to reading your work. 

Press the blue "Compete" button below to participate (viewable to registered users who are logged in and viewing an active contest). You can only participate in active contests, not "Upcoming" contests. Please check the date the contest begins before attempting to participate. The active contest can be found on the home page.

 

Monday, May 28, 2018 to Monday, June 4, 2018
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Name Submitted By Likes Comments
Accidents & Emergencies cartervance 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Green Men Don't Talk Sara Backer 1 4 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Loving june Motunwrites 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Claíomh Solais tomdabomb555 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Advice to My Younger Self Jocelyn65 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Snare Drummer’s Plight Miles T. Ranter 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Flames of Sorrow Blue Dunwoody 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The New Girl Zelda Fink 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Drowning Ones Colleen Anderson 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
asea rickjstassi 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
You May Already Have Lost DavidKM 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Floods JessG 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Elements House JP Davies 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Containment Bruce Boston 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Improvement JStest 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Is old old? aweil4444 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Vanity of Human Poets CyQuimby 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Amice / My Friend (Latin) Johann F. Potgieter 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Home of Mother Nature Dusty Blue 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Thích Quảng Đức Jonathan May 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Body Julia Tannenbaum 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Being Candlelion 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A bad news code3019 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Star that won't go out. KhuzaimaAli 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ochre beezley115 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Haiku her freesias Lee Nash 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]

Comments

Sara Backer's picture
I'm noticing a lot of poems this week without line breaks. In my case, it was not intended. But several poems have line breaks intact. Is this a matter of using a PC instead of a Mac? (I use a Mac.) I tried copy-and-pasting with a text editor but my line breaks didn't stick. Thanks, anyone, for tips. Cheers, Sara

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Frank Watson's picture
It is a problem with the "upgrade" of the platform's software (Drupal). It messed up a lot of things we had and our tech people have been working on fixing the problems, including the line spacing and text editor. It's frustrating because we had this all fixed before, but then the "upgrade" ruined it. Some people still seem to be able to post with correct line breaks, so try a plain text editor in the meantime. Word processors like Word insert a lot of extra stuff that can confuse HTML editors.

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