Hi Everyone!   This is my first time doing the poetry marathon and so I thought – ‘go big or go home’ and signed up for the 24 hour marathon.  I’m so excited to write 24 poems in 24 hours!

It’s an honor and a privilege to be counted among this year’s half-marathoners. I’m a first-timer here. I may one day feel equipped to take on the 24-hour challenge. In the meantime, isn’t this exciting! My secret dream is to be a published novelist. I…

Mandy here! Looking forward to doing this again.  Been waiting all year. Haven’t done much writing these last few months.  What I’ve been doing is typing up and compiling all of my poetry.  More to come on that.   Y’all ready??

Hello everyone! This is my fourth marathon, and I’m so excited to be back! I haven’t written anything in a while so this year might be a bit of a challenge to me, but the past year has been quite the roller coaster so I’m…

Hi there! I’m Leila, a stay at home mama to two littles, a Preeclampsia survivor and advocate, and a maternal mental health advocate. I’m a follower of Christ, and coffee lover. I wrote a Christian contemporary romance called Love, Defined. I recently released a memoir/poetry collection about…

My name is Zara, I’m 19 years old and I have a love for poetry. I am participating for the first time in the half marathon. I am not published nor would I say I have any professional experience but I have been writing since…

Greetings, all! Thanks for letting me join the ranks for my second half-marathon! I’m collecting my fruits and nuts for the twelve-hour sprint, and my adorably helicopter wife will undoubtedly be hovering nearby, ready to bring me endless cups of hot tea and coffee. I’m…

Hello poetry marathon community! My name is Tracie aka The Literary Gangster and I am nestled in a small country town in NSW Australia. This is my dog Jawa, she is twelve years old and likes to run up this mountain she is pictured on….

I am slender wrists; bright eyed. Scarred knuckles; tan thigh-ed. Salty hair; air dried. Alliteration drowned in high tide.   Spilling words or wine, So long as they are both mine.   I’m here to give myself a break from the constant shaking from containing…

I’m Des and will be participating in the half marathon. Been writing poetry since I was 7. Ex-mormon feminist, nonbinary (she or they), have Selective Mutism, crusader against adultism, and…that’s about all I feel like saying right now.