Poetry Contest for Children and Teens
Poetry Contest for Children
Click on the links below to read our winning poems. Poems with asterisks include a recordings of the winner reading their poem.
Primary (Grades 1-3)
1st: Maia Embuldeniya-Fernando, "The World of Stay-at-Home" *
2nd: Cassia Zamora Angelini, "Walking Home from School" *
3rd: Clover Stewart, "A Bee’s World"
Honourable Mention: Claire Anthony, "Dogs"
Junior (Grades 4-6)
1st: Caroline Scholes, "Caroline's Coronavirus Poem"
2nd: Noah Long, "Behind the Fence"
3rd: Jane Allison, "A Perfect Little World"
Intermediate (Grades 7-8)
1st: Hafsah Satia, "They Say They Know Me"
2nd: Dev Pandya, "Rainbows" *
3rd: Maggie Donelly, "Time"*
Poetry Contest for Teens
Click on the links below to read our winning poems. Poems with asterisks include a recordings of the winner reading their poem.
Junior High (Grades 9-10)
1st: Zara Rahman, "What a Name Holds"
2nd: Cindy Cao, "Simple Gifts"*
3rd: Exsanguine Hart, "The World is a Clock, but Clocks can be Out of Time"*
Senior High (Grades 11-12)
1st: Todd Conrod, "The Masque of Tyranny: A Mock Epic"
2nd: Sadie Bell, "This is Me Wishing my Collars Were Attached to Shirts"
3rd: Aluki Chupik-Hall, "the man and the fox"