7th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards Competition
We’re pleased to announce the only Writer’s Digest competition exclusively for poets! Regardless of style—rhyming, free verse, haiku and more—if your poems are 32 lines or fewer, we want them all.
Extended Entry Deadline: December 15, 2011 – the deadline has passed. Thank you to all who have entered this year’s Poetry competition.
Prizes
- First Place: $500 and a trip to the Writer’s Digest Conference
- Second Place: $250
- Third Place: $100
- Fourth Through Tenth Place: $25
- Eleventh Through Twenty-Fifth Place: $50 gift certificate for Writer’s Digest Books.
* The names and poem titles of the First through Tenth-Place winners will be printed in the July/August 2012 Writer’s Digest, and afterwards their names will appear on www.writersdigest.com. All winners will receive the 2012 Poet’s Market.
The 7th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards Collection
The 1st- through 50th-place poems will be printed in a special competition collection. Use the entry form to order your copy or purchase a copy online using a credit card. (Publication date: May 2012. You are not required to purchase the collection to enter the competition.)
Entry Fee:
The entry fee is $15 for the first poem submitted and $10 for each additional poem. You may enter as many poems as you wish. When submitting online, the multiple entry discount only applies to entries submitted in the same checkout.
To enter via regular mail, use the printable form, and send it with your poem(s) and entry fee(s) to:
Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards
10151 Carver Road
Suite #200
Blue Ash, OH 45242
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