Celebrate your inspiration with poetry! That's the theme for our poetry contest, open to poets age 18 and older. There's no entry fee and cash prizes start at $75 for the first place poem. Deadline is Mon., Mar. 9, 2026. Scan the QR code or visit tinyurl.com/nirmv-contest-info for all the details you need to enter.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Now Accepting Entries for the 2026 NIRMV Poetry Contest
Celebrate your inspiration with poetry! That's the theme for our poetry contest, open to poets age 18 and older. There's no entry fee and cash prizes start at $75 for the first place poem. Deadline is Mon., Mar. 9, 2026. Scan the QR code or visit tinyurl.com/nirmv-contest-info for all the details you need to enter.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Announcing the winners of our 2024 Poetry Contest!
We are very excited to announce the winners of our 2024 poetry contest celebrating our theme, Discovering More About History, Herstory and Cultural Heritage. Congratulations to Elizabeth Timmerman (first place), Given Mukelabai Kolomu (second place) and Anna J. Small Roseboro (third place).
Many thanks to all who entered, our Poetry Contest Chair Maureen McGerty, and especially our esteemed judge Kathleen Ripley Leo. She is a poet, novelist, professor of creative writing, memoirist, author of books of poems, a novel, and editor of teaching the art of creative writing.
Meet our winners, read their wonderful poems and learn more about our judge:
2024 Poetry Contest Winners
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Enter Now: NIRMV 2024 Poetry Contest
National Inspirational Role Models Visionaries (NIRMV) cordially invites poets age 18 and older to submit original poems embracing our theme, Discovering More About History, Herstory and Cultural Heritage.
All participants will receive a certificate. A monetary award of $75 will be given to the contest winner, $50 for second place winner and $25 for third place winner. Deadline to enter is March 31, 2024. Winners will be announced in early April 2024. Winners and finalists may be featured at readings event on April 21, 2024.
Please see complete contest details.
Good luck!




