The following information is for the 2019 NCPS Adult Contests for individual poems. Submissions will be accepted beginning November 15, 2018, and ending January 13, 2019.
Judges will be the North Carolina Poet Laureate and distinguished poets residing outside North Carolina. The judge of the Bloodroot Haiku contest will be selected by the North Carolina Haiku Society.
Contest submissions this year may be emailed to jsabsherphd@gmail.com (See below for more detailed guidelines). Fees for the Poet Laureate Contest and for non-members may be paid online using PayPal or credit card.
Winning poems (including honorable mentions, but excluding finalists in the Poet Laureate contest) will be published in the NCPS poetry contest anthology Pinesong. For more information about current and past issues of Pinesong, click here.
Winning poets will be invited to read their winning poems at Awards Day in May 2019.
Complete rules can be found here: https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/adultcontests/.
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