Online Submission Form for 2022 Contests for NCPS Members
Full submission guidelines can be found at https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/adultcontests.
If you are not an NCPS member, you must submit your poems, with payment, at https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/submit-nonmember.
All contests, except the Poet Laureate Award, are free to enter for NCPS members. You must submit separately for each contest. Click the “Submit” button under each contest description to submit your poem for that contest.
Rules for Submitting
We use Submittable to take online submissions. The first time you click on one of the links below, for the first contest you are entering, you will be taken to a page where you can sign up for a Submittable account; after you fill in that form once, you will not have to fill it in for the other NCPS contests you want to enter. After that process, you will be taken to the “submit” page.
- On-line submissions will be available beginning November 8, 2021.
- Submissions must be received by the NCPS by midnight, January 8, 2022.
- In the Title textbox, enter the title of the poem you are submitting for that contest.
- In the Cover Letter textbox: enter your name, address, phone number and email address.
- Upload your file, which should include ONLY the poem and title, without your name on the page; the system will only accept pdf, doc, and docx files.
- FAILURE TO DO THE ABOVE may result in your entry being disqualified!
Poet Laureate Award
Sponsored by Kevin Watson / Press 53
Description: A serious poem, any subject, any style, maximum of 110 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Eligibility: Open to poets currently residing in North Carolina.
Entry Fee: $10 (Members)
Submit Here
Poetry of Witness
Sponsored by Doug Stuber
A poem in any form, any style, that communicates a vision about consequential events or issues.
Submit Here
Thomas H. McDill Award
Sponsored by the Board of the NC Poetry Society
A poem in any form, any style, maximum of 70 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
Alice Osborn Award
Sponsored by Alice Osborn
Poems written by adults for children 2 to 12 years of age.
Any form, any style, maximum of 36 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
Joanna Catherine Scott Award
Sponsored by friends of Joanna C. Scott
Sonnet or other traditional form (excluding sestinas – see the Ruth Moose Sestina Award).
Maximum of 50 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award
Endowed by Pepper Worthington
A poem in any form, any style, on the theme of American heritage, brotherhood/sisterhood, or nature.
Maximum of 36 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
Katherine Kennedy McIntyre Light Verse Award
Sponsored by Diana Pinckney
A poem in any form, any style, including limericks.
Maximum of 36 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
Bloodroot Haiku Award
Sponsored by Bill Griffin
One haiku per entrant.
Submit Here
Poetry of Courage Award
Endowed by Ann Campanella
A poem in any form, any style, on the theme of courage or crisis.
Maximum of 36 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
Carol Bessent Hayman Poetry of Love Award
Sponsored by Dave Manning
A poem in any form, any style, on the theme of love.
Maximum of 36 lines (including poem title, any epigraph, blank lines, and lines of text).
Submit Here
