2025 Cascadia Youth Poetry Contest
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2025 Cascadia Student Poetry Contest Guidelines
Submissions Open March 2 - May 2, 2025
Division I: Kindergarten - Grade 5
Division II: Grade 6 - Grade 9
Division III: Grade 10 - Grade 12
Contest open to all K-12 students who are residents of the state of Oregon, including public, private, magnet, charter, parochial, incarcerated, and home-school students. There is no entry fee.
Up to ten winners will be selected per division. Each winner will receive a $50 prize and publication in the next issue of Cascadia. Winners will be announced to all entrants in early June, 2025. OPA will host a celebratory reading for the winning poets in late June via Zoom. Winning poems may also be published on OPA’s website and may be included in an OPA newsletter, social media posting, or special public gallery display.
All winners in Divisions II and III are encouraged to enter into the nationwide 2025 Manningham Trust Student Contest sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. This contest also awards cash prizes and publication.
Cascadia Student Poetry Contest Submission Guidelines
1. Each student may submit one original poem (of their own, individual creative work) on any subject, in any style, form, or language. Bilingual poems are also encouraged. Co-written and collaborative poems will be disqualified.
2. The poem should be uploaded to Submittable by the student or their teacher in a .doc or .docx file.
3. The Submittable form requires that each poet submit the following information with their entry:
- Student’s Name
- Student’s School
- School Location (Town)
- Student’s Grade
- Student’s Email
- Parent/Guardian’s Email
- Parent/Guardian’s mailing address
- Student’s Teacher
- Teacher’s Email
- Confirmation of Oregon Residence
- Confirmation of Original Content
Contact information is for notification purposes only and will not be shared.
4. Submissions with incomplete Submittable forms will be disqualified.
5. The contest deadline is May 2, 2024.
Judges
The judges this year include Brennan DeFrisco, Jae Nichelle, and Mindy Nettifee.