2026 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Competition

Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook and Massey University Press are running the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook student poetry competition for another year. This competition has been a huge success to date, with student poems published in the 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions to critical acclaim. Student poetry competition winners have gone on to have their own poetry collections published, be published in other major poetry publications, win prizes, be awarded mentorships, have their work published online — including in The Spinoff — and make appearances at the Auckland Writers Festival.

There is still plenty of time to enter so please encourage your students — it’s a fantastic opportunity for them to become published poets, and it allows us the chance to share some of the amazing verse being created by young people from Aotearoa.

Ngā manaakitanga,

Cadence

Cadence Galt (they/them)
Editorial Assistant

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