In need of a writing challenge? Choose from the proposed themes and give the challenge a try!
| 2024-10-06 | text limit | Obsolete words (2 Texts) | Open |
| 2023-11-16 | text limit | Tanka Poems (18 Texts) | Open |
| 2022-11-07 | text limit | Postcard Reprise (8 Texts) | Open |
| 2022-02-01 | text limit | Write a Poem to the Tune of a song. (41 Texts) | Open |
| 2020-11-30 | text limit | Postcard poems (25 Texts) | Open |
| 2020-08-09 | text limit | Up for a Ghazal? (10 Texts) | Open |
| 2020-05-29 | text limit | 15 years of PoetBay! (13 Texts) | Open |
| 2020-01-23 | text limit | Random Words Challenge (10 Texts) | Open |
| 2020-01-11 | text limit | One Day (7 Texts) | Open |
| 2015-09-16 | text limit | RenRhyme Challenge (13 Texts) | Open |
| 2015-03-06 | text limit | Rime couées & your rhyme scheme (20 Texts) | Open |
| 2015-01-20 | text limit | Ekphrastic poetry & You? (19 Texts) | Open |
| 2014-02-05 | text limit | Triolets & You - tout court (26 Texts) | Open |
| 2022-06-22 | one month | midyear bonus (2 Texts) | Closed |
| 2021-04-29 | one month | Poetry about a planet (not Earth) (7 Texts) | Closed |
| 2020-01-11 | one month | Pantoums, Perhaps? (12 Texts) | Closed |
| 2017-10-31 | text limit | Villanelles! This Should Work! (11 Texts) | Closed |
| 2012-11-16 | one week | Justification (9 Texts) | Closed |
| 2012-06-18 | one month | "Elements" Challenge (9 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-18 | one month | A little something for the weekend (1 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-14 | one month | Invisible (79 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-14 | one month | Soulmates (76 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-14 | one month | Forgive me (45 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-14 | one month | Dolcevita (20 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-14 | one month | Haikutema: Voice (12 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-14 | one month | Smile (67 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-08 | one week | Each single day (102 Texts) | Closed |
| 2010-09-08 | one week | A poetic love song (102 Texts) | Closed |