The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest!
“Swan Dive” by Danielle Hubbard
Runner-Up
“The Root Cellars of Elliston” by Richard Brait
Second Runner-Up
“How to Pack for Internment” by Kevin Irie
Third Runner-Up
“Garbage Eve” by Diane Massam
Honourable Mentions
(to be published alongside our winning poems)
“As a Tree (For Emily)” by Elise Arsenault
“Post-Partum” by Kaila Gallacher
“Polling Station” by Nash Lott
“ambient” by Jessica McMillan
“To My Sons: Instructions for My Burial” by Kimberly Peterson
“At the CNE, August 1963″ by Kathy Stinson
“Ballad Collecting in the Scottish Highlands” by Mary-Alice Thompson
“Four-Chambered Heart” by Christina Wells
We look forward to publishing these poems in our Fall Issue.
Thank you to all of the wonderful poets who submitted.