We’ve launched a platform to promote poets, whether experienced or looking to test the waters. The YHS Poetry Contest is latest project we’ve embarked on to promote positivity in our community. We are a non-profit organization focused on helping the less fortunate in Haiti, but we also want to help those in our backyard. This contest was put in place to do just that. Check out the rules and enter once you’re ready. You could win up to $150 CASH! Now, who wouldn’t want that! Hurry up and enter, our contest will run till the end of March. Another round will be opened in April. Enter NOW!
Contest Rules
The YHS Poetry Contest is open to everyone regardless of experience or previous publication. Employees and agents of Young Haitian Scholars, Inc. and their immediate families are ineligible and may not enter. Each entrant may submit one poem of no more than 30 lines on any subject, and in any style. No Poet should plagiarize for entry in this contest. We prohibit the use vulgar or offensive language in the contents. Do not employ profanity. Submitted text should be the original, individual work of the entrant. All submissions become the property of YHS and might be considered for publication in a forthcoming anthology and may appear on this website. Entrants retain copyright on his/her own individual work. Entrant can submit a maximum three texts but have to pay a subscription for all 3 texts. All entries should be done via our website, and no blanks should be left on the form. Entrants must complete the entry form in its entirety to qualify for the contest.
Poems are judged based on originality, creativity, and artistic quality. Poems not meeting the requirements for line limitation are automatically disqualified. Poems containing profanity, vulgarity or offensive materials are automatically disqualified.
1st Place – $150
2nd Place – $100
3rd Place – $50