Poetry.com offers monthly contests for poets worldwide to gain motivation, inspiration and exposure, while building passion and enjoyment for the written creative process! How are winners chosen? The contest boasts a clever twist: poems remain anonymous whilst applicants vote on what they believe should be the winning entry.

Work must be an original composition and previously unpublished. Poems may take any poetic form and cover any theme or subject as long as material is respectful and inoffensive. Poems must be in English.

The top three winners will receive cash prizes, with the first-place winner receiving $500, the second-place winner receiving $300, and the third-place winner receiving $200. At the end of the year, the twelve monthly winners will compete for the Poem of the Year grand prize of $1,000.

Deadline – last day of every month.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.