Announcing the 2025 Magpie Award for Poetry Longlist!

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We are happy to announce the longlist for the 2025 Magpie Award for Poetry!

Find the longlisted poets below, listed alphabetically by first name. Those with a number beside their name have multiple poems under consideration for this year’s shortlist!

The 2025 Magpie Award For Poetry Longlist

Andrew Moore (2)
Angela Rebrec (4)
Angela Robertson
Angelle McDougall
Anna Eastland (2)
Callista Markotich
Corey Siemens
Damai Siallagan
Deniz Soykurumcetin
Dominik Slusarczyk (2)
Eleanor Peebles
Elizabeth Cockle (2)
Ev Bishop
Grant Wilkins
Greer Stothers
Helen Gowans
Iona Jiang
Jude Neale (3)
Kaile Shilling
Kayla Matias
Lulu Keating
Maxwell O’Toole (2)
Pattie Palmer-Baker (2)
Rhonda Collis
Rhys Backus
Rula Jurdi
Sandra Kasturi
Sharon Blanchard

Congratulations to these authors and their forty longlisted poems! Best of luck in our next round, and thank you to all of our participating authors.

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