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The Ontario Poetry Society Presents:
The Elusive Treasures Poetry Contest

Open to Paid Members Only

Grand Prize: One Year Free Membership
10 Honourable Mention Awards
All entrants receive a poetry book by a different author.
All contest winners receive an award certificate
and a chapbook with the winning poems.

Poems need to be on anything they view as beautiful
that others may not.

Max. length per poem is 28 lines and stanza spaces count as lines.
Poem titles not in the count.
Up to 40 characters per line. This includes all punctuation
and spaces between the words.
Poems may be in any style.
Each member may submit up to 10 poems.
Poems must be unpublished and not sent elsewhere,
to be submitted on 81/2 x 11 (letter size) paper,
single spaced in Times New Roman #12 font.

Blind Judging: No author ID to be anywhere on the poem page,
back or front. Add a cover page with author name, address, e-mail,
phone number and contest titles (or first lines if no titles).

Entry fee: FREE

Poems to be mailed on/or before August 31st, 2025 to:

The Ontario Poetry Society
Attn.: I.B. Iskov, Contest Coordinator
#710-65 Spring Garden Avenue
Toronto, ON M2N 6H9

Contest Judge: Ronnie R. Brown