1. NFSPS Founders Award – to honor Mary B. Wall.

      Sponsor: NFSPS, Inc.   

      Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 100.

      1st Prize: $1,000.   2nd Prize: $500.   3rd Prize: $250.

      Entry fee: per poem – members ($5),

                                         non-members ($10). 

      Limit: 4 poems per contestant.

2. The Margo Award

      Sponsor: her friends, in memory of 

      Margo LaGattuta.

      Subject: Finding Your Way Home, figuratively or

      literally. Form: Any.  Line Limit: 50.

      1st Prize: $200.  2nd Prize: $100.  3rd Prize: $50.

3. Social Critique Poetry Award 

      Sponsor: Randy K. Schwartz.  Subject: A poem that

      expresses a yearning for society to advance beyond

      the oppression of humans by humans.  Form: Any. 

      Line Limit: 75.

      1st Prize: $200.  2nd Prize: $100.  3rd Prize: $50.

4. Donald Stodghill Memorial Award * (members only)

       Sponsor: Pat Stodghill

       Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

       1st Prize: $200.  2nd Prize: $100.  3rd Prize: $50.

5. Winners’ Circle Award

      Sponsor: Sue Chambers, Pat Stodghill, Diane Glancy, previous prize winners of the NFSPS Founders Award

      Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 80.

      1st Prize: $115.  2nd Prize: $85.  3rd Prize: $60.
6. NFSPS Board Award

      Sponsor: NFSPS Executive and Appointive Boards.

      Subject: Any.  Form: Ballade.  Line Limit: 50.

      1st Prize: $175.  2nd Prize: $100.  3rd Prize: $50

7. Stone Gathering Award

      Sponsor: Danielle Dufy Literary.

      Subject: Any.  Form: Prose Poems.  Line Limit: 40.

      1st Prize: $125.  2nd Prize: $75.  3rd Prize: $50.

8. Poetry Society of Texas Award * (members only)

      Sponsor: Poetry Society of Texas

      Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

      1st Prize: $125.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

9. Jim Barton, Bard of the Pines Award

        Sponsor: South Arkansas Poets of the Pines. In

        Memory of Jim Barton, past President of NFSPS and

        cheerleader to all writers, who saw wonder and poetry

        everywhere in nature.  Subject: Wind in the Pines. 

        Form: Any.  Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $100.  2nd Prize: $60.  3rd Prize: $40.

10. Lucille Morgan Wilson Memorial Award

        Sponsor: Julie Cummings and Carla Jordan

        Subject: Gardens.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $100.  2nd Prize: $60.  3rd Prize: $40.

11. Al Laster Memorial Award * (members only)

        Sponsor: Diana Gagne.  Subject: an Ekphrastic poem

        —written in response to viewing a painting, drawing,

        photograph, sculpture, or other piece of visual art.

        Form: Any.  Line Limit: 50.

       1st Prize: $100.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $50.

12. The Countee Cullen Poetry Prize

        Sponsors: M. Palowski Moore and Toby Palowski

        To provide a space for poetry that reflects the

        experiences & perspectives of the many facets of the

        2SLGBTQIA+ Community.  Subject: 2SLGBTQIA+

        Perspectives.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 50.

        1st Prize: $100.  2nd Prize: $60.  3rd Prize: $40.

13. Arizona State Poetry Society Award

        Sponsor: Arizona State Poetry Society (ASPS)

        Subject: Magical Connections. 

        Form: Any.  Line limit: 40. 

        1st Prize: $125.  2nd Prize: $20.  3rd Prize: $15.

14. Jim Barton Memorial Award * (members only)

         Sponsor: Poets Roundtable of Arkansas

         Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $75.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

15. Alabama State Poetry Society Award 

        Sponsor: Alabama State Poetry Society.  Subject:

        Breaking the Rules.  Form: Choose a form but break

        it—modify an existing form to make it your own.

        Note form and modifications on entry. Line Limit: 50.

        1st Prize: $75.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

16. Land of Enchantment Award

        Sponsor: New Mexico State Poetry Society.  To

        honor the memory of Susan Paquet.  Subject: A

        poem related to “borders,” real or imagined.

        Form: Any.  Line limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $75.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

17. Poet’s Work Award

        Sponsors: Paul Ford and Marie Andrews.

        Subject: Life as Other.  Form: Persona poem.

        Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $75.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

18. The Listening Poem Award

        Sponsor: Linda Eve Diamond

        Subject: Listening.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $75.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

19. Mildred Cummings Memorial Award

        Sponsor: Friends of Mildred Cummings

        Subject: Family Meals.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $75.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $25.

20. Power of Women Award

        Sponsor: Sue Chambers and Christina Flaugher.

        Subject: the Power of Women. 

        Form: Any.  Line Limit: 40.

        1st Prize: $70.  2nd Prize: $50.  3rd Prize: $20.

21. The Virginia Corrie-Cozart Memorial Award

         Sponsor: Her friends in the Peregrine Writers.

         Honoring the author of A Mutable and Wavering

         Reflection. Subject: Something observed and/or

         overheard.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

         1st Prize: $60.  2nd Prize: $40.  3rd Prize: $20.

22. Mildred Vorpahl Baass Remembrance Award

         * (members-only)  Sponsor: Nancy Baass, in loving

         memory of her wonderful mother, a truly beautiful

         lady, inside and out, who served two terms as Poet

         Laureate of Texas.  Subject: Cats – their endearing

         habits, intelligence, loyalty, beauty, etc. (no reference

         to cruelty or abuse).  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

         1st Prize: $60. 2nd Prize: $40. 3rd Prize: $20.

23. League of Minnesota Poets Award

         Sponsor: the League of Minnesota Poets.

         In Memory of John Rezmerski.

         Subject: Any. Form: Free Verse. Line Limit: 45.

         1st Prize: $60. 2nd Prize: $40. 3rd Prize: $20.

24. Jessica C. Saunders Memorial Award

        Sponsor: Shavano Poets Society of Colorado.

        Subject: Any. Form: Villanelle. Line Limit: (follow form)

        1st Prize: $60. 2nd Prize: $40. 3rd Prize: $20.

25. Poetry Society of Indiana Award

        Sponsor: Poetry Society of Indiana

        Subject: “A Perfect Storm.” Form: Any. Line Limit: 40

         1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

26. Nevada Poetry Society Award * (members only)

        Sponsor: Nevada Poetry Society.

        Subject: Humorous.  Form: Shakespearean sonnet

        Line Limit: follow the form.

        1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

 27. William Stafford Memorial Award

        Sponsor: Oregon Poetry Association and Friends

         of William Stafford.  In memory of William Stafford,

         Oregon’s late Poet Laureate and twice Honorary   

         Chancellor of NFSPS.

         Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

         1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

28. Columbine Poets of Colorado Award * (members only). 

         Sponsor: Columbine Poets of Colorado

         Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 50.

         1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

29. Morton D. Prouty & Elsie S. Prouty Memorial Award

          Sponsor: daughters, Catherine P. Horn and Carol P. Ostberg and their families. In memory of Morton D. Prouty, Jr. who served as NFSPS Treasurer and Poet Laureate of Alabama, and Elsie S. Prouty.

 Subject: a Nature poem. Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

    30. Loretta Diane Walker Memorial Award

          * (members-only).  Sponsor: Poetry Society of Texas.

          Subject: Any. Form: Any. Line Limit: 28.

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

 31. Utah State Poetry Society Award

          Sponsor: Utah State Poetry Society

          Subject: Double Vision, two views of the same

          thing. Form: Any. Line Limit: 45.

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

32. Illinois State Poetry Society Award

          Sponsor: Illinois State Poetry Society

          Subject: Rivers.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

33. The Robbie Award

          Sponsor: Joyce Wilson.

          Subject: Loss of a Child (not necessarily by death).

          Form: Any.  Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

34. Iowa Poetry Association Award

          Sponsor: Iowa Poetry Association.

          Subject: Poetry for Children. Form: Any. Line Limit: 50

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

35. Wallace Stevens Memorial Award * (members only)

          Sponsor: Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Inc.

          Subject: Any. Form: Rondeau. Line Limit: (follow form)

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

 36. Poetry Society of Oklahoma Award

          Sponsor: Poetry Society of Oklahoma.

          Subject: Any. Form: Trimeric. Line Limit:13 (follow form).

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

37. Ohio Award

          Sponsor: Ohio Poetry Association.

          Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15.

 38. WyoPoets Award

          Sponsor: WyoPoets of Wyoming.

          Subject: Wyoming or the West. Form: Any.

           Line Limit: 40

          1st Prize: $40. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15.

39. Florida State Poets Association, Inc. Award

          Sponsor: Florida State Poets Association, Inc.

          Subject: a Celebration of Florida History or Culture, 

          or any other Florida topic, historic, or contemporary.

          Form: Any.  Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $35. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15.

40. Poetry Society of Michigan Award

          Sponsor: Poetry Society of Michigan.

          Subject: Any.  Form: Free Verse.  Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $35. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15.

41. Mississippi Poetry Society Award

          Sponsor: Mississippi Poetry Society

          Subject: Any. Form: Sonnet (include sonnet type

          on entry). Line Limit: (follow form).

          1st Prize: $35. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15.

42. Poetry Society of Tennessee Award * (members

          only).  Sponsor: Poetry Society of Tennessee.

          In honor of Ann Carolyn Cates.  Subject: Humorous

          poem. Form: Rhymed & Metered. Line Limit: 16.

           1st Prize: $30. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15

43. Miriam S. Strauss Memorial Award * (members

          only). Sponsor: Russell H. Strauss. Subject: peaceful

          event in American history before the year 2000. No

          war poems. Form: Any. Line Limit: 10 – 40.

          1st Prize: $30. 2nd Prize: $25. 3rd Prize: $15.

44. Jesse Stuart Memorial Award

          Sponsor: Kentucky State Poetry Society.

          Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $20. 3rd Prize: $15.

45. Barbara Stevens Memorial Award

          Sponsor: South Dakota State Poetry Society.

          Subject: Any Serious Theme. Form: Any.  Line Limit: 12.

          1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $20. 3rd Prize: $15.

46. Missouri State Poetry Society Award

          Sponsored by the Missouri State Poetry Society.

          Subject: The Show Me State.  Form: Any. 

          Line limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $25.  2nd Prize: $20.  3rd Prize: $15.

47. Save Our Earth Award

          Sponsor: Martha H. Balph.  In memory of

          David F. Balph.   Subject: Environmental Issues.

          Form: Any.  Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $20. 3rd Prize: $15.

48. Massachusetts State Poetry Society Award

          Sponsor: Massachusetts State Poetry Society.

          Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $20. 3rd Prize: $15.

49. Maine Poets Society Award

          Sponsor: Maine Poets Society, fostering poetry

          since 1936.  Subject: the Face of Climate Change

          in Nature.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 40.

          1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $20. 3rd Prize: $15.

 50. The Poets Northwest Award * (members only)

          Sponsor: The Poets Northwest, a chapter of the

          Poetry Society of Texas, celebrating 37 years  of

          encouraging and inspiring poets in their craft.

          Subject: The City.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 36.

          1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $20. 3rd Prize: $15.

 Student Award: Grades 9 –12

    Sponsor: Julie Cummings (CO), Catherine L’Herisson (TX).

    Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 32.

    1st Prize: $50. 2nd Prize: $30. 3rd Prize: $20.

    7 Honorable Mentions: $5 each.
 

Poetry in the Classroom Award: Grades 6 –8

    Sponsor: New Mexico State Poetry Society.

    Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 32.

    1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $15. 3rd Prize: $10.

    Poetry in the Classroom Award: Grades 3 –5

    Sponsor: New Mexico State Poetry Society.

    Subject: Any.  Form: Any. Line Limit: 32.

    1st Prize: $25. 2nd Prize: $15. 3rd Prize: $10.

    No entry fee is required for these student contests. Open

    only to students in grades 3 thru 12. Include your grade with

    name and home mailing address on the second copy only

    (per contest rule 1), or enter via Submittable. One poem per

    student. Mail entries to 2024 Contest Chair.