Divided into four age groups (Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6, Grades 7-9, Grades 10-12). The contest's purpose is to recognize and promote excellence in poetry writing for local students! $50 First Place, $25 Second Place prizes will be given at a formal awards presentation by 2011 Poet Laureate, Amy Small-McKinney, on Saturday, April 21, 2012, at Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts (7924 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118).

2012 Entry Forms here

The Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson Award in Formal Poetry will be a yearly award of $250 to a High School student from Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, or Philadelphia counties who has submitted the best example of a poem written in a determinate form . The prize will be awarded at the annual Montgomery County Poet Laureate (MCPL) Awards Ceremony at Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts (7924 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118) on Saturday April 21st 2012.

2012 Entry Forms here

2012 SARAH MOOK
POETRY PRIZE

Sarah Gail Mook was a student in the third grade at Buckingham Friends School in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, when she died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm on December 14, 1995. Sarah started writing poems in kindergarten. It is the goal of this outreach that Sarah's gift continue to inspire young poets.

2012 Entry Forms here