National High School Poetry Contest
Gannon University English Department Now Accepting Submissions
The top three winners will receive a monetary award, a book, and publication in the Gannon Writing Awards program.
Poems may also win Honorable Mention awards.
Winners will be notified by email in March. Awards will be presented at the annual Gannon Writing Awards program.
Submission email: highschoolpoetry@gannon.edu
Deadline: February 1
Rules and Eligibility
- Entrants must be a high school student or a home-schooled student in grades nine through twelve. Students from anywhere in the United States may enter.
- Poems may be in rhyme, free verse, Haiku or other accepted poetry forms and of any length, up to a maximum of 40 lines.
- No entry may have been previously published.
- Winners receiving a monetary award will be required to complete a W-9 form to receive their prize.
- Results will be published on our website www.gannon.edu/poetrycontest during the first week of April. Only the winners will receive individual notifications.
How to Submit
- Each student may submit 1 or 2 single-authored original poems as attachment(s) in ONE email.
- The email subject line should contain the student's name
- The text section of the email should contain student's name, address, phone number, email address, school name, school address, instructor's name, instructor's email, and grade in school
- Poems must be typed and submitted as PDF or DOCX or DOC attachments only. Submissions through Google docs links will not be accepted. Please do not include your poem in email text section.
- Questions may be addressed to Dr. Shreelina Ghosh at ghosh002@gannon.edu
Judging
Gannon English faculty members judge the poems. Each poem is read
independently by at least two readers to determine finalists. The final
decisions are made by two select faculty members, who will be named at the
awards ceremony in April at the Annual Gannon Writing Awards Ceremony.
Free / Open to Public
For more information, email Dr. Shreelina Ghosh (ghosh002@gannon.edu)