Last year, we had another excellent response to our annual Poetry Contest, with over eight hundred poems submitted. Fifty of those poems were selected for inclusion in Quiet Diamonds 2025, creating a truly excellent annual journal (available for order both via the mail and online at this site).
Poetry Contest
2024 Poetry Contest Results
This spring, Orchard Street conducted its seventh annual Poetry Contest. Approximately 800 poems were received from writers in 42 states.
2023 Poetry Contest Results
In the spring of 2023, The Orchard Street Press conducted its sixth annual Poetry Contest. Approximately 700 poems were sent by writers from forty states.