**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED**

Please join @afterpoetry.com in congratulating K Roberts, @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Suzi Feay, @arainbowpoet.bsky.social, Matt Cariello and @victoriaspires.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

The window is open, poets ... come on in.

#opensubmissions #poetry #afterpoetry #ekphrastic #ekphrasis

It's nearly time again ...

If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.

Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.

You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.

Good luck! 🤞🏼

And did you know you can make poems (and their inspirations) a lot easier to read just by tilting your device into landscape?

Sure, there's a bit more scrolling involved – but the point size of the text becomes instantly bigger!

With a new #ekphrastic poem a little over 24 hours away on @afterpoetry.com – and a new font to improve readability – here are two tutorials to help you get the best from the journal when enjoying it on a mobile device.

First, did you know you can tap on the moons to go through poems in date order?

*FORWARD PRIZES 2025*

Congratulations to these @forwardprizes.bsky.social nominees for Best Single Poem Written:

@georgiahilton.bsky.social – We are not gold

@esloudon.bsky.social – Y Tu Mamá También

Suchi Govindarajan – Hope is a thing with chemicals

Your poems will be formally submitted soon.

Happy New Year to one and all!

Thank you for making @afterpoetry.com so successful over its first three years online.

Be here from 9pm (GMT) on January 13th for @jackbedell's #ekphrastic poem 'Sungazing'.

Merry Christmas to you all from @afterpoetry.com. Thank you for reading in 2024.🎄

**CONGRATULATIONS!**

It wasn't easy selecting nominees for The @PushcartPrize. But in the end these six poems stood out.

Well done to @esloudon.bsky.social, @bethosmond.bsky.social, Laurie Eaves, Mary Ford Neal, Penny Ayers and Suchi Govindarajan.

Your nominations will be formally submitted soon.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Osmond, JP Seabright, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Laurie Eaves, L Kiew and Spencer Wood on your nominations for @sundresspub.bsky.social's Best of the Net 2025. Your poems will be formally submitted within the next two weeks.