Harvest HarmoniES

Because we want to promote a national consumption of literature, we are creating a new kind of poetry-meme through our online zines. 

Contestants should send us their previously unpublished 12-line poems or 100-word stories about autumn, harvesting, hunting (even mushroom hunting counts!), or other annual autumnal activities to choeofpleirnpress@gmail.com during the month of September. Two winners will be chosen each week during October. Your email should include a 100-word 3rd person bio that will be published on this webpage.

Choeofpleirn Press will announce the two weekly winners each Friday of October through our Facebook wall.

Those memes will also be located here as part of our collective Harvest Harmonies zine. Feel free to copy and share these poem-memes to help us spread great literature across the internet!

See the image carousels below for previous winners.

There is no cost to enter this contest. Send us your best.

Harvest Harmonies Winners, October 2025

Slide through the story-memes using the arrows on each side of the memes.

Winning 2025 Writers' Biographies

We received so many great submissions that we published three in Week 5. Happy Halloween! Enjoy these treats!

Fiona M Jones writes short fiction, nature-themed CNF and sometimes poetry. Her published work is usually somewhere in here: https://fionamjones.wordpress.com/ .

Greg Beatty lives in Bellingham, Washington. He writes everything from jokes about cows to essays on cooking disasters, and has more dog friends than human friends. 

Leah Mueller's work is published in Rattle, A Certain Age, Writers Resist, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, Does It Have Pockets, Outlook Springs, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She has received nominations for Pushcart and Best of the Net. One of her stories appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions. Her fourteenth book, A Pretty Good Disaster was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2025. http://www.substack.com/@leahsnapdragon. 

Baskin Cooper is a poet, visual artist, and multidisciplinary creator based in Chatham County, North Carolina. He holds a PhD in psychology and previously lived in Cork, Ireland, experiences that inform his explorations of folklore, lyricism, and personal history. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The Avocet, ONE ART, Ink & Oak, and Smols Poetry Journal, with work forthcoming in Verse-Virtual. Baskin is currently assembling his debut collection, The Space Between Branches, while continuing to create across genres and forms. 

Kieren Alderling wields weird fiction and other genres in his quest to interrogate the alleged monster in the mirror, playing with the fact of being painfully human in an era of shifting, surveillance-driven technology. A Canadian author and artist who lives in Treaty 7 territory in Calgary, Alberta, he enjoys exploring the mountains, playing tabletop RPGs, and writing unsettling adventures that leave no survivor unchanged. Find him at alderling.com. 

E.C. Traganas is the author of the debut novel Twelfth House and Shaded Pergola, a collection of short poetry with original illustrations, E. C. Traganas has published in 100+ literary magazines. She is a Juilliard-trained concert pianist and composer by profession, has held over forty nationally-curated exhibitions of her artwork, is founder/director of the NYC-based literary forum Woodside Writers, and Editor of The Woodside Review.  www.elenitraganas.com

As a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, Stacey Bowerman is a poet and creative nonfiction writer living in the Missouri Ozarks. She took a break from writing and publishing in the early 2000s due to a disabling illness. She lives quietly now with her emotional support dog, Juno. Recently, she has found writing fulfilling and appealing again. She enjoys studying random topics and devoting time to creative projects.  

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has fifteen published chapbooks the latest being: not your piñata (Alien Buddha Publishing, June 2025). Linda's favorite season has always been autumn: pumpkin everything, hot apple cider, the scent of the leaves and all of the changing colors. She enjoys both reading and writing books, nature walks, fantasy in all medias, both spooky and creepy horror films, anime, baking, singing and dancing, and spending time with any animal that she encounters.  

Jenna Restel is a longtime hobby writer and admirer of poetry. While married and raising 3 daughters and 2 cats in New Jersey, she has just begun to put her words out there for the world. You may find two of her poems in the upcoming Issue 11 for literary magazine Keeping the Flames Alive.

Roger Heineken grew up in Atchison County. Emporia is his home today. Retiring from a career in the Emporia State Student Affairs Division, Heineken has enjoyed writing memoir and creative nonfiction. He hangs out with his Emporia Writers Group friends and is a member of the Kansas Author Club.

A native of South Detroit, Michigan, now residing in Hampstead, New Hampshire, Daniel Miltz is a seasoned freelance writer and poet whose life bridges the realms of technical precision and creative expression. With a distinguished 40-year career as a Mechanical Engineering Designer in high-level government aerospace programs, Daniel brings to his literary craft the same discipline and depth that defined his engineering pursuits.

Poetry-Memes for Harvest Harmonies 2024

Our poetry editor loved so many of the poems we received for the Harvest Harmonies contest this year that he wanted to post 10 poems, instead of the original 8 we had agreed upon. 

Editors Ruth J. Heflin and James P. Cooper added their poems as examples of the poetry-memes Choeofpleirn Press will produce for this zine.