Announcing the Seventh Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest!
How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us make connections between global issues and our local and personal contexts? Students are invited to explore these questions and make their voices heard in their entries to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest.
VER ESTE PÁGINA EN ESPAÑOL: https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/fighting-words-concurso-y-taller-de-poesia
Eligibility:
Current K-12 students anywhere in the world may enter. Students may write in any language, and are welcome to submit multilingual poems. Judges will have reading fluency in English and Spanish.
Prizes:
1st place: $300, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
2nd place: $200, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
3rd place: $100, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
Finalists: $75, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
Deadline:
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 11:59pm EDT
Application Deadline:2024-05-12
How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us make connections between global issues and our local and personal contexts? Students are invited to explore these questions and make their voices heard in their entries to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest.
VER ESTE PÁGINA EN ESPAÑOL: https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/fighting-words-concurso-y-taller-de-poesia
Eligibility:
Current K-12 students anywhere in the world may enter. Students may write in any language, and are welcome to submit multilingual poems. Judges will have reading fluency in English and Spanish.
Prizes:
1st place: $300, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
2nd place: $200, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
3rd place: $100, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
Finalists: $75, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
Deadline:
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 11:59pm EDT
Application Deadline:2024-05-12
