The 23rd Annual National High School Poetry Contest covering the 2020 - 2021 school year is now accepting submissions.

This year's individual scholarship prizes range from $100 up to $500. 

Up to 100 JUST POETRY!!! Winners and hundreds of Topical Winners.

All winners will receive an offer of publication. 

(Click on the Just Poetry logo to find out more about the magazine or to access the Just Poetry website)

WHO WE ARE

WHAT WE DO

HOW WE DO THAT

We run an annual High School Poetry Contest open to all U S high school students. This year's top prize winner can receive a cumulative award of up to $2500 in college scholarship money & have their poem(s) appear in

AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL POETS

JUST POETRY!!!

the NATIONAL POETRY QUARTERLY

We also publish topical anthologies at the end of each contest featuring only the very best poetry available from the contest on the topics of faith, love, self, and world.   

WHERE WE'VE BEEN  

We have been publishing high school poetry anthologies and running scholarship poetry contests since 1998.

This is our 23rd annual contest. Those of us who conceived and created this organization did so because we felt, and continue to feel, spiritually led to do so through meaningful experiences we have had with youth, poetry, and education, as well as some excru-ciatingly mindbending experiences we have had with those big-name on-line poetry contests. 

We felt that the youth of America deserved a forum which would provide an opportunity for serious young poets to have their work read, respected and published with dignity, and that is what we are all about.

Whether you prefer to read your poetry out loud, or, quietly to yourself, you will find that the poetry we select for our anthologies is second to none.

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