•  $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, August 29, 2016 to Monday, September 5, 2016
Contest type: 
Poetry contest
Poem Name Submitted By Likessort ascending Comments
Spring Cleaning emily.chen 22 6 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Loneliest Road Miles T. Ranter 4 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
What a Moment of Near Perfect Peace Dylan Kersten 3 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Thoughts on a Painting By Bouguereau (The Nut Gatherers) dmlovic 2 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The House Becomes Elle Perry 2 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ethereal Planes Ryan Stone 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Nuts Bobthewookie 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Trust DonKrieger 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Birth of Venus mushybella 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I Died Today Ken Allan Dronsfield 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
eyes of blue rickjstassi 1 1 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Paying Respect Trish Lindsey J... 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
a falcon, a cobra, a pedestrian and art of death Fabiyas M V 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
what heaven handed us kman 1 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
White Flowers Little Tails 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Exhaled Potential clinc001 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Man of Valour Immanuel 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sway QueenElizabeth 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I-4 Misnomers coleymel555 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
It Doesn't Matter kristinryan 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
This is the schematic for a narrative about hunger spread out on a table ericdovigi 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Gifts Drinian 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
kaleidoscopic whorled wide web. 2lame2rhyme 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Centrum Permanebit Lisamarie468 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Day;Night pandateddybear 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Think Not ResaSay 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sixth Century Particle Theory Sara Backer 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Fellow Snorers Rebecca O'Bern 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
pigeons olivia.neal24 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Your spirit is a shadow Joe Cottonwood 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Growing into a Woman chaitali gawade 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Survey Don Kingfisher ... 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Ode to my Body Havok21 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sex and the City tahnp 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Entitlement ramonathompson 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
August Awakenings Heather M. Browne 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Poets, James Kelly Quigley 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The End Of All You Know Valerie Chishol... 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Class IV scottrell 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Thank you. s.rosenblatt 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Renewal baggins404 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Dis-ease trishhopkinsonpoet 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Movement of life Ketriana 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Macarons EmilyJane 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Sweet Sue Lee Nash 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
My Wife Returns as She Would Have It Bruce Boston 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Mermaid's Song Neil Slevin 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Porcupine akp333 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
(YOU HAD A RAZOR SCOOTER IT WAS RED AND YOU GOT IT) FOR CHRISTMAS A. M. Sweeney 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Deliver Us SquidWaffle 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
A Ngraffi sage's poem of Adages N. Muma Alain 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
Why me? Dvor 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
I was meek Sakshi J. Arora 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]
The Frogs Robyn-Jade Hosking 0 [field_honorable_mention][field_winner]