{"id":165050,"date":"2026-06-09T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=165050"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:03:01","slug":"the-poetry-marathon-is-closed-for-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-poetry-marathon-is-closed-for-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Marathon is Closed for Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-165061 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project-August-07-2023-at-11.21.55-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project-August-07-2023-at-11.21.55-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project-August-07-2023-at-11.21.55-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project-August-07-2023-at-11.21.55-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project-August-07-2023-at-11.21.55-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project-August-07-2023-at-11.21.55-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nThank you to everyone who signed up this year!<\/p>\n<p>This year we had a record breaking 762 people sign up to participate! A big thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavishyatai.com\/\">Bavishya Tai,<\/a> for handling our social media this year.<\/p>\n<p>We have participants from all over the world including but not limited to: Ireland, Bolivia, Mexico, India, Nigeria, United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Switzerland, Philippines, Egypt, Kenya, Netherlands, \u00a0Malaysia, South Africa, France, Romania, Greece, China, Spain, Bolivia, Denmark, Australia, Guatemala, Bahrain, Indonesia, Peru, Malawi, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil,\u00a0 Sri Lanka, Italy, Singapore, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an exact science, because of how different people enter information, but the rough breakdown of the countries with the most participants are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. United States of America<br \/>\n2. India<br \/>\n3. UK<br \/>\n4. Canada<br \/>\n5. Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>This is in the order of participants per country. We have participants on every continent except Antarctica. (If you&#8217;re on Antarctica, please get in touch.)<\/p>\n<p>If you registered and you haven&#8217;t heard from us, please email us at poets@thepoetrymarathon. Email is the most reliable way to contact us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who signed up this year! This year we had a record breaking 762 people sign up to participate! A big thank you to Bavishya Tai, for handling our social media this year. We have participants from all over the world including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165062,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165050\/revisions\/165062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}