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/

 

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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.

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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.

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