The 2025 Button Poetry Video Contest Opens July 19, 2025.

Need some inspiration? Check out out 2024 winners below!

Congratulations to the winners of our 2024 Video Contest!

Winning Videos Full Collection

Grand Champion: Kelsey L. Smoot – A Litany For Arrival – After Audrey Lorde                  Release October 9, 2024

Runner-up: Vanessa Chica Ferreira & Rebeca Lois Lucret – We Can Never Be Small       Release October 10, 2024

 Emerging Writers Winner: Ariana Lee – Mo Li Hua                                                                      Release October 11, 2024

   International Submitters Winner: Nathaniel Lloyd Richards – Ode To Black Women          Release October 12, 2024

Finalists:

                                                Stone – Dear Artemesia               Release October 13, 2024

                                                      Elle Hope – God Bless America        Release October 14, 2024

                                                    Gabriel Mizunaka – To The Student Who Wrote Me This Note

        Gina Loring – The Revolution is You

Aubrey Barnes – How Dare You