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  • About Us
  • For Educators
    • Free School Copy
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  • Submit Poetry
    • Educators
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Librarians and Teachers
Librarians and Teachers,
Thank you for considering this National Schools Project. For the past twenty-eight years, schools across the nation have been invited to participate in this project.
The National Schools Project is committed to working with teachers and librarians throughout the United States. Each participating school receives a free copy of the book and has the possibility of winning a $100 award for the most student poems accepted. Your school may be one of the schools receiving awards for the most accepted submissions. Here is the list of the 10 schools that recently received awards.
Student security and privacy are our greatest concerns and ones that we have successfully addressed over the twenty-eight years of the project. Student information is not disclosed to any outside party nor is the student’s name published with any information that may connect him/her to their school, address or locality. Individual student information is destroyed upon publication of the book.
Poetry can be submitted online or through the mail. Please refer to the poetry submission guidelines for the information required for each submission.

      
Submission Deadlines 2023
  • AK-AZ schools: Friday, April 7, 2023
  • CA schools: Friday, April 14, 2023
  • CO-HI schools: Friday, March 10, 2023
  • IA-MT schools: Friday, March 17, 2023
  • NC-OR schools: Friday, March 24, 2023
  • PA-TX schools: Friday, March 31, 2023
  • ​UT-WY schools: Friday, April 7, 2023
Submission Guidelines
  •  Poems should be no more than 80 words in length.
  •  Submissions may be handwritten or typed.
  •  There is NO LIMIT on the number of submissions from each teacher or librarian.
  • A student may submit multiple poems, but each student is limited to one page of poetry.
  • Please no shape poems.
Mail Submission Guidelines 
Online Submission Guidelines
A free copy of the 2023 Young American Poetry Digest goes to your school library.
To order additional books, click here.

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