Join The Poetry Forms Chapbook Challenge 2025!
June 9th-19th 2025
Our poetry challenges have been exceedingly popular. And one thing that has been on the rise lately has been a return to learn and write form poetry. People have been asking for more courses/challenges to do with poetry forms, and so we've responded!
We've lived in an age of free-verse poetry for awhile, and free-verse is great, but there is also a long, long (thousands of years) tradition of form poetry from various parts of the world.
Some forms are very old, some are very new, but all are interesting ways to inspire us and help us write!
Poetry form is deeply rooted in the so many cultures around the world.
Forms are challenging, forms are fun, and forms help us discipline our writing.
Ideal for the poet who is looking to learn some new forms or brush up on forms they already know, we invite you to join the Poetry Forms Chapbook Challenge!
We've lived in an age of free-verse poetry for awhile, and free-verse is great, but there is also a long, long (thousands of years) tradition of form poetry from various parts of the world.
Some forms are very old, some are very new, but all are interesting ways to inspire us and help us write!
Poetry form is deeply rooted in the so many cultures around the world.
Forms are challenging, forms are fun, and forms help us discipline our writing.
Ideal for the poet who is looking to learn some new forms or brush up on forms they already know, we invite you to join the Poetry Forms Chapbook Challenge!
How Does It Work?Step 1:
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Japanese Poetry Forms
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Participation: 15 Poems in 10 Days
Each day of the contest the participants will be emailed a prompt video for the day. They will also receive the Japanese Poetry Forms downloadable text the first day of the challenge as well as the video series on Understanding Poetic Meter. All participants are free to use the main prompts, prompts from the journal or any other ideas or inspiration they have for writing their poems, the only hard and fast rule is to write the 15 form poems in 10 days!
PrintingIf the challenge is completed, the participant can inform us of the completion and then have the opportunity for Local Gems Press to print a chapbook for them--the finished chapbooks will be pocket-sized books, 4.25 by 6.9.
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Registration: Closes June 8th at Midnight
Midnight EST (Or When Full)
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Because of high demand, at this time we have to limit this challenge to the first 100 people who register. We will keep you updated with how many spots we have left, but we expect it to fill up quickly.
After registration you will get an email on June 19th with the introduction and further instructions. (Be sure to check promotions and spam folders.) Will you accept the challenge? |
Challenge Registration: $30 |