Contest Honorable Mention Award

I am pleased to announce that a series of my haiku was awarded honorable mention by the Poetry Society of Virginia's 2025 Annual Adult Contest! I will not be posting the winning haiku onto my website at this time so they remain unpublished and thus available for journal submissions.

The Poetry Society of Virginia's news announcement: https://poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/2025/03/07/psv-annual-adult-contest-results-are-in/.

The winners of the 2025 Annual Adult Contest will be archived soon along with past contest winner announcements: https://poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/psv-contest-previous-winners/.

While only the 1st and 2nd contest prize winners will be published in the Poetry Society of Virginia's annual print anthology, it is a great pleasure to be recognized with an honorable mention by the contest editors. The editorial feedback I received describing my haiku means a lot to me and is something I'll make sure to remember. In a sea of form rejections, kind words from those who enjoy one's work can be such a buoy of light.