Globe Soup - August 7, 2025

Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

PRIZES: $12,000 | Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest ͏ ͏...

PAID PROMOTION

This is not a Globe Soup competition. If you have any questions regarding this contest, please contact the competition organisers!

Deadline: October 1, 2025

Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest

Submit published or unpublished work. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Most countries are eligible, including the UK, and there is no restriction on the age of the author. Entry fee: US$25 for each submission of 1-3 poems. Submit as many entries as you like.

Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2025). Submit online via Submittable. Click to learn more about our guidelines and past winners.

SUBMIT ONLINE VIA SUBMITTABLE

Final Judge

Michal 'MJ' Jones

MJ (they/he) is an award-winning poet, parent, and editor living in Oakland, California. Their poetry has appeared in the American Academy of Poets, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Muzzle Magazine, TriQuarterly Review, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Their debut collection of poetry, Hood Vacations, won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. They are also the author of a chapbook, Soft Armor, from Black Lawrence Press (2023). Often addressing the troubling and haunting aspects of life, violence, and identity, MJ's poetry blends lyrical, documentary, and confessional modes. Visit their website.

Assistant Judge

Briana Grogan

Briana (she/they) is a Black queer femme from Southern California. Her poetry found form in San Francisco, where they currently live and work as a bookstore clerk. She received her MFA in Poetry from Mills College. Their writing explores the silence in grief and the joy in healing. She was an artist in residence at Art House San Clemente, the Guest Poetry Editor for Foglifter Journal Vol. 8, and a finalist for the 2021 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Their work can be found in Foglifter Journal, The Ana, and is upcoming in When We Exhale and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. Follow them on Instagram and LinkedIn and visit their website.

Assistant Judge

Dare Williams

Dare is a Queer HIV-positive poet and literary worker rooted in Southern California. A 2019 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, he has received support and fellowships for his work from the Ashbery Home School, The Frost Place, Brooklyn Poets, Breadloaf, Tin House, and Vermont Studio Center. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best American Poets 2022, and is featured in Foglifter, Frontier, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He is an associate poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine and an MFA student at Warren Wilson College. To learn more about Dare's writing, visit his website.