Harvest Harmony

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Contestants should send us their previously unpublished 12-line poems or 100-word stories about autumn, harvesting, hunting (even mushroom hunting counts!), or other annual autumnal activities to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

Winning 2025 Writers' Biographies

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. 

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.