The Booksie 2017 Poetry Competition

Contest Closed

Contest Winners

The winners of the Booksie 2017 Poetry Competition are:

Grand prize:

Sonnet 5: Likeness by Phin Hamak

Runner-ups

• Pavement by Perry Landers
• The Alcoholic's Wife by Kaitydid

Each winner will receive the appropriate badge on their profile and on their work and will also receive their prize money. In addition, we'll be featuring the winners across the site.

Congratulations!

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Calling all poets. Booksie is looking to crown its 2017 Poet Laureate. Get your poems out and submit them to the contest.

The poetry can be of any type, length, or content, but it must be your own. The poetry can be serious or whimsical, fact or fiction, but it should strike a chord that makes us sit up and take notice. We're looking for poems will attract reader's attention as we feature the winners on the homepage and across the site. You may submit as many entries as you like.

Prizes:

• One winner will receive $200, receive the Booksie Poet Laureate badge, and have their poem Boosted for one week (the poem will appear prominently across the site, including the homepage).
• Two runner-ups will receive $25 and have their poem Boosted for one week (the poem will appear prominently across the site, including the homepage).

Good luck!