Every summer, the city repairs 10 miles of sidewalk — and your words could be literally set in concrete. St. Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry Contest is returning this spring, allowing people of all ages across ...

The Lafayette Public Library has announced the winners of the 21st annual Writes of Spring Writing Contest. This year, the Writes of Spring received 245 student entries, officials say. The contest was ...

The Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest is now accepting submissions, according to a community announcement from WOMR. The deadline to submit is Jan. 12, 2026.

We marveled at the range of topics the young poets presented, serious to funny, thoughtful and fanciful. We want to thank the writers who had the courage and the motivation to craft and submit their ...

Nearly 600 kids from 23 states and the District of Columbia shared their “Poetry of the Pandemic” with KidsPost. It was an extremely challenging assignment to narrow them down to 10. “I was awestruck ...

Begun in 1996 to encourage the appreciation of poetry, National Poetry Month features a roster of poetry events and readings held all over the country at schools, libraries and bookstores. Its founder ...

Every semester the Howe Writing Center holds a creative writing contest, with the mission to cultivate a culture of writing that honors a range of voices and perspectives at Miami. The contest is open ...

For those who think they know, the Milford Fine Arts Council is accepting entries in its 26th annual National Poetry Contest. "The trite answer," said Stanley Kavan, chairman of the contest, "is that ...