2025 National Summer Poetry Contest Entry Form (for all ages)

2025 National Summer Poetry Contest Entry Form (for all ages)

You may submit one poem per contest. Deadline to Enter: July 31, 2025
Privacy Policy: Your privacy is important to us. The information provided here will be used solely for the purpose of this contest (i.e. to notify participants regarding contest results and the ensuing publication). No information will be sold or distributed.

We require your Legal First and Last Name for the author's release or if you are a prize winner. All other correspondence will use your Preferred First and Legal Last Name.

Please fill out using proper capitalization (rather than all lowercase or all uppercase).
Legal First Name*
Preferred First Name (the first name you use in everyday life, for correspondence and if published)*
Middle Name or Initial
Legal Last Name*
Pen Name (optional but discouraged - must include a first and last name)
Age (required if under 18; optional otherwise)
Parent/Guardian's First and Last Name (if you are under 18)
Parent/Guardian's First and Last Name
Postal Mailing Address (must be in Canada)*

Street Address

Unit Number or PO Box

CityProvince

Postal Code
Phone Number*
Phone Number with Area Code
Email*
Please note school emails may not allow us to reply or send you an attachment (such as a proof sheet if your work is accepted).
Would you like to join our email mailing list to be notified of final prize winners and future contests?*

Yes, email me updates a few times a year (select this if you have already subscribed and would like to remain; we won't send duplicates).No, I will check your website myself for updates and to view final prize winners.
How did you hear about the contest?*

Participated PreviouslyTeacher or SchoolNotice in LibraryFacebookOther
About the Author*

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Number of Lines (48 max.)*
Your entry will be disqualified at any stage of the contest if discovered to be over this limit.
Title of Entry*
Entry (copy and paste poem here)*
To conserve paper, use hard returns (Enter or Return key only) where you want each line to break and one blank line between stanzas. (A stanza is a group of two or more lines.) Delete extra blank lines. Do not worry about lines breaking differently in this form, as how it appears to you here will depend on your screen size. As long as you have the correct hard returns where you want each line to break, the formatting should appear correct on our end. If your poem requires italics for specific words/phrases, please add a star *before and after* the word/phrase, and we will add them. If your work is offered publication, you will be able to add additional formatting during the proofing process.
By submitting this entry, I confirm that all passages and characters are original and of my own creation (for example, I have not used Spider-Man, Pokémon, celebrities, etc., used a writing prompt where I have copied line(s), or copied sentences found in a book or online).

If I have used the names of people I know, I have received their express written permission.

If a phrase is not my own, I have properly cited it using quotation marks and noted the source (i.e. author and title of work, including books, videos, games, media, TV, movies, etc.) in a footnote.

If my story was inspired by another poem, story, song, video game, movie, etc., I have provided the source in the "Additional Comments" section below or before the story.

This work is not posted anywhere online, and I will not share it online until December 2024 if it is accepted for publication.

I have not submitted this work elsewhere recently and do not plan to submit it elsewhere in the near future (no simultaneous submissions).
I confirm I have read and agree to the above declaration.*

Yes
Comments to the Judges (request special consideration due to disability/ ESL, add citation note, etc.)
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