Awards

Annual Awards

The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers.

2020 Student Poetry Award

Awarded for the best unpublished poem by a student in grades 9 through 12 from the United States.

Endowed under the wills of Louise Louis Whitbread and Ruth M. Bourne.

DEADLINE

October 1-December 23 2019

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ENTRY FORM

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PRIZE

$250

Submission Details & Instructions

You can only submit one entry per student.
Teachers or administrators may submit an unlimited number of their students' poems, one submission per student.
A poem that has previously won a PSA Award cannot be re-submitted.
No previously published work can be submitted.
Translations are ineligible.
Poems by more than one author will not be accepted.
Entry should have one cover page and two collated copies of your poem.

The cover page must include:

Name
Mailing Address
Email (if available)
Phone
Name of the Award
Title and First Line of first poem in submission
Your name should not appear anywhere else besides this cover sheet.

Entry Fees

High school students may send single entries to the Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award for the fee of $5.

High school teachers or administrators may submit an unlimited number of their students' poems (one submission per student) for a $20 entry fee.

You do not need to be a member of the Poetry Society of America to submit to this award.

Checks should be made payable to the Poetry Society of America.

Mailing Address

Poetry Society of America Awards
15 Gramercy Park
New York, NY 10003

The Poetry Society of America is grateful to and admiring of the nation's poetry publishers for their faithful support and promotion of the art. In particular, we wish to thank the following book publishers for supporting our Annual Awards Ceremony.