The New Zealand Poetry Society’s Annual International Poetry Competition

The New Zealand Poetry Society’s Annual

International Poetry Competition

closes 31^st May 2016

The New Zealand Poetry Society’s annual International Poetry Competition, Verse and Haiku, is now under way, including Open and Junior Sections for both forms. The Open Junior and Haiku Junior sections are for students who are 17 years of age or younger on 31st May 2016, and are further divided into primary/ intermediate and secondary sub-sections. 

Please visit our website at www.poetrysociety.org.nz for full competition details and to download the entry forms. Last year’s results, including winning poems, and judges’ reports are also on the website.

There are cash prizes, and the winning poems and other selected entries will appear in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s annual anthology in November 2016.

This year’s judges are:

            Diana Bridge (Wellington) – Open Verse

            Cynthia Rowe (Australia) – Open Haiku

            Majella Cullinane (Kapiti) – Junior Verse

            Harry Frentz (Tauranga) – Junior Haiku

Further enquiries can be directed to :

The Competition Secretary

PO Box 5283

Wellington 6145

New Zealand

competition@poetrysociety.org.nz