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2024 Oregon Poetry Association Contests

The Oregon Poetry Association is proud to announce the 2024 OPA Contests! Poets are invited to submit to the following contests: Youth, Adult, and Spanish Language. The Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest is now open. Full details are here: https://opa.submittable.com/ More information will be available on our Submittable Page when each contest opens. We look forward […]

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ANNOUNCING OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION 2023 ADULT FALL CONTEST

Categories, Guidelines, Judges  OREGON POETRY ASSOCIATION 2023 ADULT FALL CONTEST Begins:  August 1, 2023                                                                                                              Ends:     September 1, 2023                    Winners announced mid-to-late October 2023                                                                                                    CATEGORIES Please remember that if you are not a current member of OPA you must submit your entries through the Non-Member Submittable portal in order for them to be accepted. Limit:

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READ THE WINNING POEMS FROM OPA’S 2023 ADULT SPRING CONTEST POET’S CHOICE CATEGORY, JUDGE BRIAN SNEEDEN

2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS POETS CHOICE CATEGORY, JUDGE BRIAN SNEEDEN 1st Place, “The Séance” – Cynthia Boersma 2nd Place, “Invitation” – Richard Robbins 3rd Place, “Star Signals” – Jessica Kolman 1st HM, “Riffing on William Stafford” – Michael Lasater 2nd HM, “Inflamed” – Sherri Levine 3rd HM, “Mars Ain’t the Kind of Place to

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READ THE WINNING POEMS FROM OPA’S 2023 ADULT SPRING CONTEST MEMBERS ONLY CATEGORY, JUDGE KIM STAFFORD

2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS MEMBERS ONLY CATEGORY,  JUDGE KIM STAFFORD 1st  Place,  “Star Struck” — Dale Champlin 2nd Place, “Cul-de-Sac” — Richard Robbins 3rd Place, “Every day I Get Closer to Knowing How to Say Goodbye” – Linda Drach                                                    1st HM, “Lake Inguadona” – Sharon Johnson 2nd HM, “Recipe for a Long Life”

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READ THE WINNING POEMS FROM OPA’S 2023 ADULT SPRING CONTEST NEW POETS CATEGORY, JUDGE WILLA SCHNEBERG

2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS NEW POETS CATEGORY, JUDGE WILLA SCHNEBERG  Ist Place, “Los Liones Canyon” — Patricia Farrell 2nd Place, “The 24th of January (The Invasion of Ukraine)” — Suzanne Pearce 3rd Place, “Stage 4” — Alanna Pass 1st HM, “Poem about a Song” –Jessica Kolman 2nd HM, “My Brother a Moment” – M.

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READ THE WINNING POEMS FROM OPA’S 2023 ADULT SPRING CONTEST TRADITIONAL EPISTOLARY CATEGORY, JUDGE DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN

2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS TRADITIONAL EPISTOLARY, JUDGE DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN 1st Place, “Postcard from January” – Connie Soper (an epistolary pantoum!) 2nd Place:, “Dear Friend” – Dan Kaufman (wonderfully surprising language throughout!) 3rd Place,  “To the Stylist Who Cut My Hair Last Winter” – Keli Osborn (how the wry humor throughout manages to vacillate

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READ THE WINNING POEMS FROM OPA’S 2023 ADULT SPRING CONTEST, THEME WILDLIFE (ANY INTERPRETATION) CATEGORY, JUDGE KELLI RUSSELL AGODON

2023 SPRING ADULT CONTEST RESULTS THEME WILDLIFE (ANY INTERPRETATION), JUDGE KELLI RUSSELL AGODON 1st Place, “Broken Line” — Ann Farley 2nd Place, “Vinterstid1/Winter’s Time” – Auna Johannessen 3rd Place, “Extinction Dreams after Beachie Creek Fire” — Carey Taylor Honorable Mentions (in no particular order): “Snow Globe Valentine” – Shawn Aveningo-Sanders “Of the Wild Bees Living

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Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Poet’s Choice Category

2022 FALL ADULT CONTEST RESULTS POET’S CHOICE: JUDGE: DOROTHEA LASKY 1st Place – La Chua, Alison Gaines 2nd Place — At St. Mary’s, Suzy Harris 3rd Place — Pink Bubble Technology, DM Wallace 1st HM — Upon Learning of a Friend’s Suicide, Robert Eastwood 2nd HM – Amelia,  Scottie Sterrett 3rd HM — I’ll Tell

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Read the Winning Poems from OPA’s Members Only Category

2022 FALL ADULT CONTEST RESULTS MEMBERS ONLY: JUDGE: MICHAEL MINASSIAN 1st Place — Breaking, Jennifer Rood 2nd Place — Still Life, Linda Drach 3rd Place — Audaciouse, Joy McDowell 1st HM — At Harriet Tubman’s Grave in Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York, Nancy Flynn 2nd HM — The Day I Die, Dale Champlin 3rd

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