2025 Poetry Contest - High School Category (Grades 9-12)
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Deadline: January 14, 2025
Awards - Up to three Young Poets will receive a $75 prize.
All winners will be published on the Bethesda Urban Partnership Web site and honored at a special event during the Local Writer's Showcase, held March 13, 2025.
Requirements Poems cannot be more than 21 lines of text. Do not double space your entry. Only one entry per person. Your poem must be your original work and must be currently unpublished. Any poems containing material that is obscene or objectionable will be disqualified.
Eligibility Students must be residents or attend a school in Montgomery County, MD or Washington, D.C.. Current and former employees, contractors, directors, and officers of the Bethesda Urban Partnership (BUP) and their immediate family members are ineligible. Current students, relatives, or close personal friends of the judge(s) are also ineligible. Must be between 14-18 years old at the time of the entry deadline. Only one entry per person.
Judge Courtney LeBlanc - Arlington Poet Laureate
Notification Winners will be contacted in February 2025.
Copyright All entrants retain the copyright rights that they have in the poems they submit, but by participating in this contest and submitting poems, all entrants grant Bethesda Urban Partnership (BUP) the right, license, and ability to use and publish all submitted poems (in complete form or in excerpted form) on the BUP Web site, on other Web sites, and in other media.
Questions? Please email poetry@bethesda.org or call 301-215-6660, Ext. 117.
For more information, please visit www.bethesda.org.