Awards & Contests
The Department of English and Foreign Language seeks poetry written in English by undergraduate or graduate students of Alabama A&M University full or part-time.
Cash prizes will be offered for 1st, 2nd, and 3d places.
The contest opens February 20th and closes April 1st, 2025. The winners will be announced in April.
2025 contest rules
- one poem per entrant
- 60 lines or less
- include the title of your poem
- previously unpublished
- no simultaneous submissions
- poems by current students only
- Microsoft Word or PDF
- 12-point sized Times New Roman font
- No self-identifying information on the poem (other than A# in top right corner)
- scan the QR code above or visit https://forms.gle/FiVcjE3WHodNF4hd9
- fill out biographical fields
- upload poem, including A # (no other identifying info)
