Greetings, everyone!

The Poetry Judges have finished the tremendous task of sorting through 50+ poems, 20-something for the Harry/Hermione category alone. The polls are now open, and will remain so until March 10 GMT. To help voters make informed decisions, each Poll is followed by copies of the qualifying posts from the Submissions thread.

The Contest Coordinators, Mrs. Pepper & ricelius, thank you all for your patience. Let's thank them for coming up with what could very well be the first ever Poetry Contest in the Harry Potter fandom!

Lest we forget, let us also thank all our Portkeymates who shared their poetic talents with us! Thank you for making Portkey and the fandom even more fun.

So what are we waiting for? Let's proceed to the polls!

Shippy Poems:

• Harry / Hermione
  
  
• Draco / Ginny
  
  
• Lily / James
  
  
• Ron / Luna

General Harry Potter

Execrable

Hi everybody!

That's it -- our jury finally came up with five nominations for each category. We do realize it's taken some time, and we appreciate your patience. You have all been very understanding, even though it must've been hard to wait for the final outcome.

Now the polls are open, and we invite all PK'ers to vote for their favorite poem in each category. The polls will stay open for a month, that is until March 10th, and the winners will be announced immediately after voting is over.

The jury, consisting of innermurk, romulus lupin, Mrs. Pepper, and myself, have come up with the nominations following a set of guidelines, which include aptness of title, impact, imagery, suitabilty, meaning, basic theme or message, continuity, and technical detail. Judging on these criteria, each judge has come up with an overall rating for each entry, and the nominations are those in each category that had the highest average rating. For a couple of categories, we received less than five eligible submissions; here all submissions have been nominated.

If you have any comments or suggestions as to the running of this event, please feel free to post in the dedicated thread. We appreciate all input and constructive criticism that'll serve to make the poetry contest a continual, unique Portkey tradition.

Thank you for staying with us and supporting us.

The Poetry Contest staff
Mrs. Pepper and Ricelius



Edited to insert links. ~gal-texter

Wohoo!!

Runs off to vote in each and every category...

You know we all have to show some support for all these talented writers.

good luck to all of the contestants!!! specially to purple_mud!!!
[hi ate!!! ] eneweiz, im new here and i'm quite enjoying the site... eheh really i like to read fanfictions and poems... i'm looking forward to the winners!!! eneweiz, good luck again!!!!


-- "i'm going to bed now,before either of you have any more ideas to get us all killed. or worse expelled!!!" -Hermione

-- "Weasley id King! He doesn't make the quaffle in! Weasley is our King!"