The Call-For-Entry period for THE ARTISTS FORUM SPOKEN WORD COMPETITION: 2025 (#theartistsforumspokenword) has ended.
THE ARTISTS FORUM SPOKEN WORD COMPETITION, part of our Juried Arts Festival programming, is open to poets seeking to gain exposure in the New York City and international arts and media market.
Its mission is to provide an accessible platform for creative writer/performers to present their best work for juried selection, increase artist communication and business contacts, provide career advancement opportunities, and publicly award the work and talents of creative artists.
Our 2025 Competition Theme is: ACCESS.
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See our submission site for submission categories, and our Rules & Terms for eligibility.
SUBMISSIONS
Each submission, reviewed by a panel of industry professionals, will be rated upon its individual merits. Finalists in each category will be judged against one another and a winner declared. Our list of competition jurors is forthcoming.
All selected artists are eligible for a television studio or Zoom interview to be promoted on our online platforms and via THE ARTISTS FORUM TELEVISION – an arts-based cable TV program broadcasted from New York City since 2000.
Opening Date: JANUARY 17, 2025
Earlybird Deadline: FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Regular Deadline: FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Late Deadline: MARCH 20, 2025
Extended Late Deadline: APRIL 9, 2025
THE ARTISTS FORUM INC., now in its 26th year, is a New York City based non-profit arts service organization specializing in events, juried competitions, and media for artists. The organization provides an unparalleled platform for emerging and mid-career artists to share their stories with the world’s creative communities.
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2025 SPOKEN WORD COMPETITION JUDGES
JUDGES
Ron P. Bremner
R. Bremner has written of incense, peppermints, and the color of time since the ’70s and featured in International Poetry Review, Poets Online, Paterson Literary Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Sigmund Freud in Poetry, Quarterday Review, and 1979’s Passaic Review (alongside Allen Ginsberg). He’s published 8 books and won three Allen Ginsberg awards thrice.
Patricia Carragon
Patricia received a 2025 Best of the Net nomination for her haiku, Cherry Blossoms, from Poets Wear Prada. She hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She’s also the editor of Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal and a listed poet for The Haiku Foundation. Her jazz poetry collection, Stranger on the Shore comes out soon.
Megha Sood
Megha is an award-winning Asian American poet, editor, author, and literary activist from New Jersey. She’s received the 2021 MVICW Poet Fellowship and several national poetry awards. Her work, The Medusa Project, has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2023 as part of the LunarCodex Project in with NASA/SpaceX.
Amos White V
Amos is an inter-disciplinary multimedia artist, event producer, and exhibit designer. A graduate of the College of Human Ecology at the University of Maryland, College Park, Amos bridges his passion for the arts and human relations with the formation of THE ARTISTS FORUM.
Baron Wright
Baron is an award winning multi-disciplined artist, and motivational speaker. He is also the founder of BaronArts Inc. – a company focused on experiential learning, supportive arts, and personal development coaching. With over a decade of creative and transformational work experience, Baron uses innovative art-inspired techniques to help his clients.
