Sheila Wright The Children’s Writer’s Guild is pleased to announce The Anna C. Price Poetry Prize established to support older girls and young women in the development of their poetic craft.
The Anna C. Price Poetry Prize Competition Rules and Submission Guidelines for 2016
The Anna C. Prize Poetry Prize is established by The Children’s Writer’s Guild (CWG) and funded by the friends and family of Anna C. Price with the purpose of inspiring and supporting older girls and young women ages 12 through 19 in the development of their poetic craft. Contestants must be at least 12 years of age and no older than 19 years of age at the time their work is submitted to CWG.
Older girls and young women ages 12 through 19 are invited to submit either an original written poem (1,000 words maximum) OR an original piece of artwork with words of poetry blended into their visual piece. Visual artwork may employ another person’s poetry as long as the poetry used is in the public domain OR the submitting artist has received permission from the poet who authored the piece to use his/her work.
Competition categories are broken down into distinct age groups and poetic art forms. Submissions must strictly adhere to the requirements as outlined:
Category A: Written Poetry Only (no visuals). Not to exceed 1,000 words. $200.00 prize to one winner in each age group.
Age Group: 12 and 13
Age Group: 14 and 15
Age Group: 16 and 17
Age Group: 18 and 19
Category B: Visual Art Poetry (Words of poetry blended with visual art). $200.00 prize to one winner in each age group.
Age Group: 12 through 15
Age Group: 16 through 19
Category C: Written Poetry OR Visual Art Poetry (Prize winner for this category will receive a $2,500.00 scholarship to Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, New York to be used during the academic periods of 2017-2018 OR 2018-2019 towards tuition fees. These scholarship funds are generously donated by the Monroe Community College Foundation to one winner who intends on registering as a full time student at MCC in Rochester, New York. Students presently enrolled at Monroe Community College (MCC) are not eligible.
Age Group: 16 through 19
Formatting Instructions
All written poetry submissions should be formatted as a Microsoft Word document in Times New Roman, 12-point font, on a white background with numbered pages and the author’s name on each page. Please submit visual artwork in *.JPG format.
The following information is required for ALL submissions (including visual art submissions) on a separate page in Microsoft Word:
- Name:
- Age: (Please make sure that your age meets the age requirements set for Category C if submitting for this category)
- Birthdate:
- Category: A, B, or C (Only one entry total is allowed per person. Multiple submissions in one or more categories are NOT accepted)
- Word Count (Please include if submitting to Category A or a written poem for Category C):
- Address:
- Email:
- Telephone Number:
Submissions should be sent to: poetryprize@childrenswritersguild.com.
CWG will begin accepting submissions on March 15, 2016 with a final deadline for submissions on October 15, 2016. Submissions will be acknowledged.
Winners will be notified the first week of December 2016 and publicly announced on December 15, 2016 at CWG Online: www.childrenswritersguild.com. Checks to winners in Categories A and B will be mailed within thirty days of the CWG public prize announcement on December 15, 2016, and the MCC scholarship winner in Category C will receive a certificate that can be redeemed towards $2,500.00 in tuition fees at the Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York donated by The Monroe Community College Foundation.
There will be one winner for each age group of Categories A and B and one winner for Category C determined by a panel of judges selected by The Children’s Writer’s Guild. All decisions will be final.
All contestants under eighteen years of age must have the consent of their parents or legal guardians to participate in this competition. Parents or legal guardians affirm that the work submitted is the original work of their child. Contestants eighteen years of age or older confirm that the work submitted is their own original work.
Winners eighteen years of age or older must provide written consent to CWG to share their name, photo, winning written poem or winning artwork, with the general public at CWG Online and on its social media accounts. In the case of winners under the age of eighteen, parents or legal guardians must provide written consent for their child’s name, photo, winning poem or winning artwork to be shared with the general public at CWG Online and on its social media accounts. A consent form (for the purposes specified) will be sent to each winner to be returned within ten days of being notified a winner. If the consent form for a given winner is not returned to The Children’s Writer’s Guild within ten days of notification at the address for CWG listed below, the prize for that winner will be declared null and void. Notification will be made by email, so all contestants are required to share an email address for this purpose.
The Children’s Writer’s Guild reserves the right to not award any prize for any category or age group if the CWG panel of judges do not feel that the submissions warrant recognition or if winners have failed to observe competition rules. If no winners are chosen, or no submissions are received in a given age group or category, or legal age winners or parents or legal guardians of underage winners fail to provide CWG with the aforementioned consent form, then CWG will return the prize money to the Anna C. Price memorial fund to be used for public school programs benefiting adolescent girls interested in the arts.
The Anna C. Price Poetry Prize competition is not open to the family of the officers of The Children’s Writer’s Guild or family members of Anna C. Price. This competition is also void where prohibited by law.
Questions concerning this competition may be addressed in writing to Sheila Wright, President and Cofounder of The Children’s Writer’s at PO Box 3313, Princeton, NJ 08543.
