Share your passion for poetry and love in The Love Lines Poetry Writing Contest! Submit your best love-themed poem and gather votes to win. The poem with the most votes will receive a special 5-book bundle prize, featuring novels and poetry collections celebrating romance and relationships—just in time for Valentine’s Day. Whether you're a seasoned poet or just starting out, this contest is the perfect opportunity to showcase your creativity and passion. We invite you to submit your best Valentine's Day-themed poems for a chance to win exciting prizes. Your poem can explore themes of love, romance, friendship, or any other emotions that Valentine's Day evokes in you. If you are a Valentines Day 2025 customer (i.e. you purchase a Valentines Day gift between 01/02/25 and 14/02/25) and your poem is published, you will receive a refund for 50% of the value of the goods you have ordered (up to the value of £49), excluding P&P (£9). e.g. Tree2mydoor Valentines Day Poetry competition. Restrictions: Open to UK citizens. Genre: Witty or soppy, romantic or silly Valentines Day poems. Prize: £100 worth of Tree2mydoor gift vouchers. Deadline: February 14, 2025. Writers’ & Artists’ Short Story Competition. Genre: Short story. All entries must be original unpublished prose of The Rotten Contest. Not all love is fresh some of it festers. Marrow is excited to announce Rotten: a literary contest seeking your darkest, fabulist tales of love gone off. We want stories, poems, nonfiction, and visual art that explore the decay, monstrosity, and unpalatable truths beneath romance. What to Submit? Compose ONE Phoenix sixain* in the nature of a personal Valentine - see my example poem.[Not a greeting card ditty :)] As the name of the poetic form suggests, it is the resurrection of 5 consecutive lines from one of your older writes (whether posted here on PoetrySoup, or not), PLUS the 6 th line which comprises one word from each of these lines.[Edit: As per my example poem All poems should reflect love and/or Valentine’s Day. Poems should be typed or printed, no longer than 16 lines, and reflect love and/or Valentine’s Day. Poetry will be judged on written content only. Contest winners will receive an excused absence from school to attend our Valentine Breakfast at Oasis Conference Center (February 14, 2025 The free-entry contest invites Valentine's Day poems in any style - romantic, soppy, funny, silly. Poems must be orignal and unpublished, and may be sent as text or video files. The best entries will be published online. The outright winner will receive £100 of Tree2mydoor gift vouchers. One entry per person is permitted. Top Poems Will Be Considered by our Editors to be Featured in the 2025 Valentine's Day special release of WORDS OF LOVE! Please Follow our Writer's Guidelines below when Submitting Your Poem: 1. Writers are invited to submit one poem for review. 2. Poems may be written in any genre and style. 3. Poems must be written in the English language 4. Valentine's day poem! 3yr 12. Valentine Haiku . 4yr 36. Musical Valentine. My Valentine's Day Image Prompt Contest WooHoo or Whatever Year 3. 5yr 14. Beautiful Current Contest: Valentine’s Poetry “An Ode to Anything but a Person” Inscape Journal is looking for submissions for the first annual 2025 Valentine’s Day Poetry Contest! Poems should be no longer than 1,000 words in length (feel free to write less) and should express a love for someTHING. This is a contest for Valentine's Day. I am looking for a poem in which you write a Valentine to a sweetheart, close friend, daughter or son or any family member, etc. You are welcome to pull on my heartstrings by making it mushy with your loving words. I look forward to reading your entries. Sonia who still enjoys receiving Russel Stover candy How to enter WritersNL’s 2025 Valentine’s Day Writing Contest: 1) Write an original romantic scene up to 600 words. Genre is open to fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, film/TV script, sci-fi, children’s/young adult, mystery, comedy, thriller, etc. *One entry per person* 2) Record an audio file of yourself reading your original works Not all love is fresh some of it festers. Marrow is excited to announce Rotten: a literary contest seeking your darkest, fabulist tales of love gone off. We want stories, poems, nonfiction, and visual art that explore the decay, monstrosity, and unpalatable truths beneath romance. before the circus show with vanilla ice of Valentine's Day will be translated into a genuine sense of universal love for all of God's precious children, no exception hell will freeze over in the USA and beyond §2. Blue Valentine's Day they fell in love on VD two days later, Russia invaded Ukraine it was the writing on the wall their sanctuary Jhat53 - Thank you for your contest. on Jan 17 2025 08:10 PM PST x edit In the last 6 months the most frequent gold/silver/bronze winners (260 contests, 780 total winners) were: Awesomax (117) • Impatiens (33) • Prasad Rao pindiprole (26) • Rónán M (25) • Cosmicyrus (23) Contests for Valentines day at the world's largest poetry site. Get inspired to write with a contest! Unique Love Poems For Valentine's Day. 14yr 24. Sweep Me Michael Waters Poetry Prize February 3, 2025 11:11 pm - 11:11 pm Bath Flash Fiction Award 2025 February 2, 2025 6:19 pm - 6:19 pm The Poetry.com Contest Monthly Poetry Contest January 1, 1970 12:00 am - 12:00 am Museum the home of one of America's earliest Valentines! To celebrate this history, try your hand at writing a poem about love or Valentine’s Day. The poem can be any style: rhyming, free verse, haiku, sonnet, etc., but must be no longer than 26 lines. One entry per person, please. Open to students in grades 4 through 6.
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