2025 Oregon Poetry Association Contests
The Youth Poetry Contest is now open! Mach 2nd to May 2nd.
Poets will also be invited to submit to the other Adult and Spanish Language contests.
Full details will be here: https://opa.submittable.com/
More information will be available on our Submittable Page when each contest opens. We look forward to reading your work.
Dates
- Youth opening: March 2, 2025
- Youth deadline: May 2, 2025
- Youth announcement: May, 2024
- April OPA National Poetry Month Contest (members only):
opening: March 10, 2025
deadline: April 14, 2025
announcement: mid-May - Spanish opening: TBA
- Spanish deadline: TBA
- Spanish announcement: TBA
- Summer/Fall Adult opening: TBA
- Summer/Fall Adult deadline: TBA
- Summer/Adult announcement: 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) is open now through April 14th. Winners will be announced in mid-May. The judge for the contest is Emmett Wheatfall.
The 2025 Summer/Fall Oregon Poetry Association Contest will be announced soon.
All winning poems are published in Verseweavers.

Cascadia Youth Contest
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.