•  $100 Winning Prize  
•  $10 for Honorable Mentions  
•  Free Entry  
•  Prior Publication Okay
•  Ends Sunday
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Each week's Winner will receive a $100 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 $10 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—we like all kinds of poems. Results will be announced within three days of the contest end and posted in the contest winners' forum. Honorable mentions will be posted in the honorable mentions forum.
 
Each week's winner will be selected by Poetry Nook's editorial staff. 
 
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 five days of the contest end. For example, if the contest ends on Sunday, the winner will be announced by Friday.
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. Winners are welcome to enter subsequent contests with a different poem.
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). 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, October 17, 2016 to Monday, October 24, 2016
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Name Submitted By Likes Comments
Walking With the Birds and the Bones Through Fairview Cemetery Miles T. Ranter 3 3 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Dried Insurgency EsorYam 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sufficient Bozhidar Pangelov 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Jumping into the system DavidKM 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Life in the Day Of Bruce Boston 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Saya's Sneezing Fabiyas M V 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Simply Love ramonathompson 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
An Open Letter Beaumonics 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Returning Mary Soon Lee 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
See Through Girls Sara Backer 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
We were dangerous Eric McCulley 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
savory sweet rickjstassi 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Infinity Anna Banasiak 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Grizzled Poem Heather M. Browne 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Wake Up (My Heart) ovcjak 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
On Thirst Jonathan May 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Flows Still The River poetfall 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
She Should Write, (Right?) chadmhorn 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Jehova Fragment #10 Joseph J. Wood 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Panic Robyn-Jade Hosking 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Porch Swing lbudrow 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Silk Threads mibar007 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Drought Summer LynneViti 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fly Away To The Moon thevisionarist 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Soul, Prisoner of War Dylan Kersten 3 2 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Mother's Hands Ryan Stone 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Thoughts on my second date with truth saore 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Consent MMCAITO 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ode to my Body Havok21 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Vanishing Point LFHalt 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Tangiers BryceH 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Raising Roses Dzfalcone 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Take Your Needles When You Go Marge Simon 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Apocalyptica Jane Sellman 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Epitome of Ambivalence No. 1 Madeleine Marnette 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ferris Wheels and Stars writerforlife 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A passionate sin Sebenzile Ngwenya 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Storm of the Bay of Bengal vasavan 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
THE SAVIOUR OF SOULS Kakoli Choudhury 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Sun's Last Sonnet RLlywarch 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Lullaby for the Unlovable TeriBeth 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fireflies Rebecca O'Bern 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Find Out My Sullen Shadow sandeepmishra551974 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Graffiti K_L 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Poetry Composition 101 stevieslaw 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Void Roopesh 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Accidents & Emergencies cartervance 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Buttons Lee Nash 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
moonlight tales profvn 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Smart Lady lakecat 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Certain Habits SWGordon 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Evanescent Effervesces Sul Tana 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
How to Write a Poem Kathleen A. Lawrence 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Human Resources F.J. Bergmann 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Pharmacist stellarkatstar 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]