The deadline to register for the 2026 August Poetry Postcard Festival is July 4!
Celebrating 20 years, the August Poetry Postcard Festival invites writers to sign up to be placed in a group. As each group reaches 32 registrants, each participant receives a list of names and addresses of the others in their group. The goal is to write a poem a day on a postcard to the next person on the list after your own name and mail it to them. In return, you will receive a poem from each participant in your group. Writers are encouraged to start in advance of August 1 to allow time for the postcards to arrive, but it’s common to have some days go by with no card arriving and others with several cards waiting in the mailbox.
In 2025, 493 participants spanned 9 countries around the globe: Canada, France, The United States, Italy, Ireland, Great Britain, Australia, Japan and Austria and 46 U.S. states and Canadian provinces, including the District of Columbia.
If you cannot participate this year, there is always next year to look forward to! Registration for this event opens September 1 of each year; early bird registration closes June 4; final registration is July 4.