Librarians and Teachers, Thank you for considering this National Schools Project. For the past thirty-one 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 thirty-one 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 2025
Alabama-Arkansas schools: Friday, March 21, 2025
California schools: Friday, March 28, 2025
Colorado-Illinois schools: Friday, April 4, 2025
Indiana-Michigan: Friday, April 11, 2025
Minnesota-New Mexico schools: Friday, April 18, 2025
New York: Friday, March 7, 2025
North Carolina-Tennessee: Friday, March 14, 2025
Texas-Wyoming schools: Friday, March 21, 2025
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.