Columbia Granger's World of Poetry®
2024 Student Poetry Contest Rules
2024 Student Poetry Contest Rules
Welcome to the eighth annual Columbia Granger's World of Poetry® poetry contest. Here at Columbia University Press we celebrate Poetry Month each April by hosting a poetry contest for high school students, grades 9 - 12. We encourage you to celebrate the wonderful world of poetry by exploring the incredible Granger's resource and spreading the word to your high school students about our contest.
- send your submissions to hp2356@columbia.edu
- the submission deadline is Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
- the contest is open to students in grades 9-12 only
- students must use Granger's to find a poem that inspires an original piece
- students must state clearly at the top of their submission: "my poem was inspired by (poem title) by (poet)"
- all submissions must be original pieces. Any submissions that demonstrate plagiarism will be excluded
- submissions should be no longer than 30 lines total (not including line breaks)
- all submissions will be judged by staff of Columbia University Press
- prizes will be awarded to 3 students
- prizes will be $100 worth of CUP books for each winning student (chosen by the student) and the student's library (to be chosen by the school's librarian)
- winners will be announced and will have their poems published on Granger's on May 1st through May 3rd and an honorable mention poem on May 6th.