Entry period: Spring
Eligibility: Grade 7 to 12 students in Canada
Entry fee: Free
Prize: One-year OwlCrate subscription and 50 books for your school library
Eden Mills Writers' Festival Poetry Contest for Teens
Entry period: Spring/Summer
Eligibility: Grade 9 to 12 students in Canada
Entry free: Free
Prize: $50 and a family pass to the festival
Eden Mills Writers' Festival Poetry Contest for Children
Entry period: Spring/summer
Eligibility: Grade 1 to 8 students in Canada
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $25 and a family pass to the festival
Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
Entry period: Spring/summer
Eligibility: Open world wide to poets aged 11 to 17
Entry fee: Free
Prize: The top 15 winners have their poems printed in an anthology & the opportunity to attend a writing residency or receive mentorship from a professional poet
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize
Entry period: Spring
Eligibility: Grade 7 to 12 students in Canada
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $400
Entry period: Summer
Eligibility: Open worldwide to all ages
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $100
Polar Expressions Poetry Contest
Entry period: Fall
Eligibility: Kindergarten to Grade 12 students
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $100 for Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 winners, $80 for Grades 5, 6, 7, 8 winners and $60 for Kindergarten and Grades 1, 2, 3, 4 winners
Entry period: Spring to fall
Eligibility: Hamilton residents or residents of a neighbouring city, ages 12 to 18
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $100
Entry period: Spring/summer
Eligibility: Quebec residents between 16 and 24 years old
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $1,000 for first prize
Submissions can be a short story, poem or work of creative nonfiction or narrative journalism written in English and published in a literary publication the previous year.
Entry period: Winter
Eligibility: Open internationally to writers between the ages of 5 to 19 who are still in school
Entry fee: Free
Prize: Winning entries are published in the River of Words anthology, published every other year. Finalists and winners receive free copies of the physical anthology. Winners also receive a prize package that often comes with books, art supplies and a medal.
Talking Back Awards (Shameless)
Entry period: Fall
Eligibility: Open worldwide to female/trans-identified writers ages 13-19
Entry fee: $15
Prize: $200
Entry period: Spring
Eligibility: Open worldwide to children aged 8 to 12
Entry fee: $15 U.S.
Prize: $300 U.S.
Entry period: Fall
Eligibility: Canadians aged 5 to 18
Entry fee: Free
Prize: $60
