The 2024 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Results
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.