The 2025 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest Results
The New Quarterly is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest!
“Holiday In France” by Callista Markotich
Runner-Up
“May Day Coronation, 1929” by Terence Young
Second Runner-Up
“Did You Know Our Mother Read to Us of You” by Callista Markotich
Honourable Mentions
(to be published alongside our winning poems)
“Quadri and Florian” by Richard Brait
“What Kurt Vonnegut Wrote…” by Richard Brait
“Initial Conditions” by Dagne Forrest
“Scattering My Father’s Ashes” by Susan Haldane
“Granada” by Nancy Holmes
“Varkala, Early Morning” by Sneha Madhavan-Reese
“Walking Past the Local Garage” by Rose Maloukis
“Love and War at Dieppe” by Callista Markotich
“When an Old Man Dies” by Anthony Purdy
We look forward to publishing these poems in our fall issue.
Thank you to all of the wonderful poets who submitted.