About the Contest
Congratulations to our 2025 Spring into Poetry Contest winners. We challenged local aspiring poets to pen verses read in 3 minutes or less (3500 characters max), and our community certainly delivered! We received a whopping 300% increase in submissions over last year! Poems of all kinds were submitted and added to our growing local collection of short form literature published online through the Short Edition and BiblioBoard digital collections.
Prizes
Each winner will receive a gift certificate to a local bookseller and an assortment of goodies to help keep the words and creativity flowing. Congratulations again, winners, and to all who participated! We look forward to reading more submissions in our next writing contest this fall.
Winning Entries
Children Ages 0-9
- 1st Place: Gideon Brevdo "Donuts"
- 2nd Place: Cearie Liang "Dark Night"
- 3rd Place: Kaira Chang "Springtime in My City"
- Honorable Mention: Eurielle C. Sebastian "From Blink to Bloom"
Pre-teen Ages 10-12
- 1st Place: Emiko Bui Schmidt "Things I Learned This Year"
- 2nd Place: Nina He "Sound"
- 3rd Place: Nethra Iyer "Spread Ink"
- Honorable Mention: Jean Chen "Farm Sounds"
Teens Ages 13-17
- 1st Place: Chloe Lui "where the tide forgets one evening"
- 2nd Place: Avanthika Krishna "When I was Six"
- 3rd Place: Joelle Luo "The Past Runs Ahead"
- Honorable Mention: Cat Proctor "A Light Unto the Nation!"
Adults Age 18+
- 1st Place: Nikita Vagal "Spring, My Healer"
- 2nd Place: Lauren Emo "GardenSpeak"
- 3rd Place: Renée M. Schell "Jazz Hawk"
- Honorable Mention: Lyn Wong "Wavering"
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