Enter the 2025 NZPS International Poetry Competition

By New Zealand Poetry Society | Posted: Friday Mar 21, 2025

Entries close midnight Aotearoa New Zealand time on May 31, 2025

The New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa has been running an annual poetry competition since 1987.

The competition is open to members and non-members worldwide, with members receiving an entry fee discount. All entries are eligible to be published in the annual NZPS poetry anthology.

Entries are accepted from all around the world!! There are FOUR categories:

• 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 (𝟏𝟖+ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬)– poems no more than 32 lines. No theme.
  

• 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐉𝐫 (𝟏𝟕 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 & 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫) – 32 lines and the theme is Music (examples of how this may be interpreted are on the linked post)
  

• 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐤𝐮 (𝟏𝟖+ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬)
  

• 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐤𝐮 𝐉𝐫 (𝟏𝟕 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 & 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫)

You can GO WILD and enter as many times as you like. Entry fees are on Submittable.

Get your entries in! Enter HERE: NZPS International Poetry Competition 2025 | NZ Poetry Society