Poetry Statistics 2026: What 1,150+ Poems Reveal
Quick answer: Data from 1,150+ poems by 1,350+ writers on Writory, with entrants from 33 countries and readers in 150+. Compiled by Team Writory, 7 August 2026. Free to cite with attribution.
Key findings
- Love outweighs loss: 'love' appears in poem titles 2.5 times as often as 'lost'.
- Poetry is young: 54% of entrants are under 25, and 18-24 is the single largest age group (41% of all poems).
- Poets are night writers: nearly 1 in 3 poems (31%) arrives between 8 PM and midnight, and deadline day peaks at 9 PM.
- Nearly 1 in 4 poems (23%) arrives in a script other than the Latin alphabet: Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu and more.
- One in five poems (20%) is submitted in the final three days before the deadline.
- The average poem title is just 3.3 words long.
- Monthly entries grew 3.2x between March and July 2026, and August is on pace to set a new record.
Method: title-language and theme figures cover Writory's full poem corpus; age and timing figures come from contest entry records, March to August 2026. Cite as: Writory Poetry Contest Entry Statistics 2026, writoryofficial.com/poetry-statistics.
This statistics page is compiled by the Writory editorial team from entry records on the site. Enter the current contest.