Contests

2025 Oregon Poetry Association Contests

OPA 2025 SUMMER/FALL POETRY CONTEST – Now Open – Deadline July 28

OPA is thrilled to announce four categories for entries for this year’s contest:

1) OREGON Poet’s Choice: one poem / two pages maximum, any subject, any form. Entrant must have current Oregon mailing address. 
Judge: Ellen Waterston (Oregon’s Poet Laureate)

2) Members Only: one poem / one page maximum, any subject, any form. Entrant must be a current OPA member.
Judge: Emily Ransdell 

3) Extended Prompt: one poem / one page maximum, any form, following this prompt.
Judge: Richard Tillinghast 

4) Theme—”Waves of Peace”: one poem / one page maximum, any form on this year’s conference theme. 
Judge: Charles Goodrich

Read more about this year’s judges

See full guidelines and the electronic submission process in Submittable

CONCURSO DE POESÍA EN ESPAÑOL 2025

Una vez más, la Asociación de Poesía de Oregón abre sus puertas a la comunidad hispana y te invita cordialmente a participar en su Concurso de Poesía en Español, cuyas bases son las siguientes:
Fecha límite para participar: hasta el 30 de junio de 2025.
Los poemas deben entregarse de manera electrónica a través de la plataforma “Submittable”: https://opa.submittable.com
Participar en el concurso no tiene costo alguno.
Los poemas ganadores serán anunciados durante el mes de agosto de 2025.
 

2025 SPANISH POETRY CONTEST

 
Once again, the Oregon Poetry Association opens its doors to the Hispanic community and cordially invites you to participate in its Spanish Poetry Contest, whose guidelines are as follows:
Deadline to submit entries: June 30th, 2025.
Poems must be submitted electronically through the “Submittable” platform: https://opa.submittable.com
There is no fee to enter the contest.
The winners will be announced in August 2025.

More information will be available on our Submittable Page when each contest opens. We look forward to reading your work.

Dates

  • Youth Contest opening: March 2, 2025
  • Youth deadline: May 2, 2025
  • Youth announcement: June, 2024

  • April OPA National Poetry Month Contest (members only):
  • opening: March 10, 2025
  • deadline: April 14, 2025
  • announcement: mid-May

  • Spanish Contest opening: May 15, 2025
  • Spanish deadline: June 30, 2025
  • Spanish announcement: early August

  • Summer/Fall Adult Contest opening: June 12, 2025
  • Summer/Fall Adult deadline: July 28, 2025
  • Summer/Adult announcement: mid September 2025

  • Award Winners Reading at Conference: early October 2025

Oregon Poetry Association Submittable

You can find open contests at the Oregon Poetry Association Submittable: https://opa.submittable.com/

 

Adult Contests

The April OPA National Poetry Month Contest (for members only) closed on April 14th. Winners were announced in mid-May via social media. The judge for the contest was Emmett Wheatfall.

The 2025 Summer/Fall Oregon Poetry Association Contest is not open with a deadline of July 28th.

All winning poems are published in Verseweavers.

Submit to our contests through Submittable.

Cascadia Youth Contest

OPA Cascadia Youth Contest poster

OPA hosts an annual youth contest for poets in the categories of K-5, 6-9, 10-12. All winning poems are published in Cascadia.

Submit to our contests through Submittable.

 

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