In the Good Years, by Laura Cresté
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Finalist, selected by Heather Treseler Laura Cresté is the author of In the Good Years (Four Way Books, 2025) and You Should Feel Bad, winner of … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, by V. Penelope Pelizzon
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Winner, selected by Heather Treseler (Photo credit: T. Deaton) V. Penelope Pelizzon is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry. Her recent book, A Gaze Hound That … Read more
Those Absences Now Closest by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Finalist, selected by Heather Treseler (Photo credit: Raisa Covaleski) Dzvinia Orlowsky is author of seven poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Bad Harvest … Read more
2026 Contest Results
The New England Poetry Club is proud to announce the results of our 2026 contests!Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Kirun KapurWinner:Carla Schwartz, “Elegy Sequence for Charles Coe”Finalists:Michelle Courtney Berry, … Read more
2026 Contest Judges Announced
Samuel Washington Allen Prize: Kirun Kapur Kirun Kapur grew up in Hawaii and now lives along the banks of the Merrimac River. She is the author of three books of poetry: Women in … Read more
Heather Treseler, Auguries & Divinations
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board Heather Treseler is the author of Auguries & Divinations (Bauhan), which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Prize and is … Read more
Andrea Cohen, The Sorrow Apartments
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the NEPC Board Andrea Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections, including, most recently, The Sorrow Apartments.Her poems have appeared in The … Read more
Daniel Tobin, The Mansions
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the NEPC Board Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, including From Nothing, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, The … Read more
Online: 2024 Contests Reading
Please join us on Zoom for our annual reading, featuring: Poems from winners of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize contests; Winning and honorable-mention poems … Read more
NEPC Contest Results: 2024
Congratulations to all winners, honorable mentions, and finalists! And many thanks to everyone who entered. We’re grateful for your participation. Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Enzo Silon Surin Jennifer … Read more