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The Home Schooled Student Poetry Championships are for US and International Students.

We notify young authors of the results of their poem judging by email and young authors can also look up the results in real-time from our state of the art website.

Who is Eligible?

Poets who are 18 or under during the 6 month contest period are eligible and all styles of poetry are acceptable. R-rated poetry content about such matters as suicide, graphic sex, hate, abuse, etc. will be declined. Our Publication is intended to be Family-Friendly.

"Home Schooled Students Poetry Championship" Book

The book is an 8.5" by 5.5" typeset book of approximately 160 pages of approximately 150 poems by young authors.

The book is professionally bound with a "perfect" binding, which is a glued back binding typical of most paperbacks.

The book is available in softcover or a beautiful hardcover edition.

We can ship these books internationally.

We would like to extend our personal guarantee of the book's quality. If you are not completely satisfied, please send the book back and we will promptly refund your money.

Special Note: A book does not have to be ordered for an author to be published in our competition book.

How and When to Submit

We ask that you submit your poems by January 1st and July 1 of each calendar year.

Submission Requirements
We have these basic requirements for poems to be considered for publication in the "Home Schooled Students Poetry Championship" publication .

Poems must be original works.

Only one poem selected per poet per contest is allowed.

The poet's full name (or pen name), age, country, and an always active email address must be provided. Poets must not share the same email address with other poets.

The poet must be able to be notified via email of the results of the judging of their poem.

Once notified of selection, a poet must fill out and return a signed permission slip, along with a signature from their home school teacher.

There are several criteria used for acceptance of the writing.

The younger children are judged by less stringent requirements, as the age of the poet goes up so do the standards for selection.

The judges who read the poems look for originality, rhythmic sounds, rhymes, and audience appeal.

The judges also look for poems where the authors really care about the subjects or trivial subjects approached in a novel way.

Poems are looked at in the categories of: Creativity, English usage, Grammar/Punctuation, Readability, Pure Entertainment Value, and Cultural Significance.