Poetry Contests and Awards

Lessons Learned in Life
Student Best Poetry Contests

Share your poetic talent. Audio, Graphical Poetry, Text, and Video Poetry. Perhaps your poetry can help another person understand or receive an alternative means to understand a problem at school or at work. We can all learn from the happiness and joy that a creative short poem or poetry can bring us.

The Best Poetry Network offers Poetry Contests and Awards to students and beginner poets, and writers.

Are you a student, stay-at-home mom or day, or beginner interested in being compensated for your poetic telant or skills? Do you need extra money for college or pursuing your educational goals? Try poetry!

Poetry Contests and Awards provide a foundation to share your best poems, best short stories, best poems about life, best poems about love, best lessons in life poems, and best Poems about Motherhood.

The Best Poetry Network offers Poetry Foundation Contest award categories and types of poetry accepted. Types of poetry accepted include Audio, Visual Poetry, Text, and Video Poetry.

Poetry Contests and Awards: December 1st, 2024

Best Poetry Contests
Best Poetry Contests

All Poetry Foundation applications must be received by the due date. Applications are 100% online,, secure, and private. Only registered Best Poetry Network members can compete.

Best Poetry Foundation Topic: Affect of Covid-19 on Me

The topic for this year's annual award will be related to the ongoing coronavirus, and its affects on Americans, and the world. How has the coronavirus impacted you? Decide which type of entry you want to submit: Audio, Visual Poetry, Text, and Video Poetry.

Eligibility Criteria for Best Poetry Foundation Awards & Contests

To ensure fair competition, we only accept Poetry Foundation Award applications from non-professionals and non-published authors. Eligible applicants must be 16 years of age or older; a current registered member of Best Poetry Network, and a residet of acceptable participating countries.

Types of Best Poetry Categories/Genres Accepted.

Types of Poetry and Graphics Not Accepted

We do not accept excessive obscenity, words identified with perversity, or nude graphical displays. We encourage intelligent and dignified poetry that can be read at family dinner table or in front of audience of educators and esteemed guests.

Best Poetry also cannot consider anything that has been previously published or accepted for publication, anywhere, in any form.

Poetry work or creative writing that has appeared online is considered to have been previously published and should not be submitted.