Poetry Broadside Contest

Send us your poems this fall! Submissions for 2025 will be open Oct 1-31. Subscribe to our newsletter in the meantime (via popup or footer) and you'll get a good sense of what we make, how we work, and be first to know when the submission form goes live. Read the backstory here for why this contest exists.

Submission Guidelines

• Submission period: Oct 1-31, 2025
• $15 entry fee for 1-2 poems
• Submitting will auto-add you to Expedition’s mailing list (unsubscribe any time)
• Poems must be 25 lines or shorter. Excerpts from longer poems acceptable.
• Submissions may be previously published if you can get permission for a broadside to be printed.
• Simultaneous submissions allowed.
  
• Prize: original letterpress broadside designed and printed by Myrna Keliher of Expedition Press! Also:
  
  • $100 cash
  • 20 copies of the broadside
  • Feature in Expedition’s newsletter & blog
  • Publication credit if previously unpublished
• Contest closed to all past or present students, interns, or employees of Expedition Press.
• Winner announced January 2026, broadside produced in spring 2026.
• Final selection by Myrna Keliher, artist and owner of Expedition Press.

[Submission Form goes live Oct 1!]

The goal of this contest is connection. To widen our reading horizons and broaden our community. We want to fling open the proverbial doors to our little printshop and invite any and every poet to send some words you’ve deeply held and put together into a poem. Even if you don’t identify as a poet. Students hugely welcome, people of all identities, ages and abilities. We are excited to read what you’ve been writing.