​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 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 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. 
 
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 three days of the contest end. For example, if the contest ends on Sunday, the winner will be announced by Wednesday.
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.
 
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, August 8, 2016 to Monday, August 15, 2016
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Name Submitted By Likessort ascending Comments
Google Earth d.r.sanchez 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Prism of Time Sruti Subramanian 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Above the World You Fly Bluehalcyon 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fellow Snorers Rebecca O'Bern 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Human Guest Marge Simon 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Stamping Sara Backer 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
girls (nightmares) SquidWaffle 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Softness Beneath the Bark WC Roberts 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
In The Shadow of Sophia Laura Taylor 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Speakeasy Pond frithar 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Crowns of Fire Michael Noir 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
lovely and true rickjstassi 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
After the Fall DavidKM 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Margarita Mask softsolace 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Изход Bozhidar Pangelov 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Pressed CynthiaM 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Untitled (A Man Thinking to a Woman) tamilani 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
On Paintings of Surrender cartervance 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Single Light Mike Moran 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Estate agent function Lee Nash 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
"Late Summer's Pause for Reflection" BeardedPoet 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fire Hunger Nina 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
10 things I learned in the jungle SophieR 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Ghost Inside hailradman 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Storm and My Rainbow Ragna_Oblivion 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
“EDUCATION OF TODAY” ShaziyaBegum 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
What are you thirst for... maria s.a. 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fit for a Fiend Rdy2run 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Trojan House Macabre Republic 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Generation Y mtocci 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
SISYPHUS DECIDES Ciarán Parkes 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
God why/your answers jw11786 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Hometown Tina Barnt 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Final Flight piscespoet 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Probability SPoKen_LiV 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
He Danced with Accordion Lungs Jude9 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Composite saulmaciasz 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Down in Your Bones Only You Alone Know Bruce Boston 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]

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