Poetry Contest
The Enoch Pratt Free Library Poetry Contest is an annual event open to Maryland poets age 18 and older.
The 2022 Poetry Contest Winner
Congratulations to Caitlin Wilson, whose poem, "Watershed," won the 2022 Enoch Pratt Free Library Poetry Contest. This contest was judged by Little Patuxent Review.
Caitlin Wilson, the 2022 Poetry Contest winner
Little Patuxent Review: Exploring Literature and the Arts
Caitlin Wilson is a Maryland poet. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her writing has appeared in ENTROPY, filling Station, Iron Horse Literary Review, McNeese Review, RHINO, Rogue Agent, and Wildness. She was a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference contributor and recipient of VCU’s 2021 and 2020 Graduate Poetry Awards, a 2019 AWP Intro Journals Project award, the 2018 Henrietta Spiegel Creative Writing Award, and a Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize for Poetry. She previously served as managing editor of Blackbird.
Read Little Patuxent Review's interview with Caitlin Wilson.
Runners-up were Alicia Potee, for "Fever," and Robert Schreur, for “When in Baltimore.”
The poems by all three finalists will be published in Little Patuxent Review’s summer 2022 issue and celebrated at a public event on Tuesday, August 16 at 6:30 pm. The winning poem may also be turned into a collectible broadside. For more information, please email poetry@prattlibrary.org.
There were 195 poems submitted to the 2022 Poetry Contest, representing 68 cities and towns and 20 counties in Maryland plus Baltimore City.
Thank you to everyone who entered the 2022 Poetry Contest!
Check out our upcoming poetry events for adults:
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It is an empowering and rewarding experience to write an hour each week, at the same time and place. It serves as powerful…November 28, 12 PM -
A read and critique group for writers with interest in all forms of writing: poetry, novel, short story, creative nonfiction…November 28, 6 PM -
Due to the Pratt Library's early closure on December 15th, the session scheduled for December 15th has been canceled…December 1, 12 PM -
Join us online for a discussion of the poetry of Emily Dickinson on her 192nd birthday. Please watch this space for links…December 10, 11 AM -
Join us online for a discussion of the poetry of W.S. Merwin, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice and was a two-time…January 14, 11 AM -
Join us for a poetry reading and discussion with local author Ed Doyle-Gillespie. Ed Doyle-Gillespie is the author of several…January 28, 2 PM -
Join us online for a discussion of the poetry of Kevin Young. Please watch this space for links to poems we hope to discuss…February 11, 11 AM
