NARRATIVE

HIGH SCHOOL WRITING CONTEST SUBMISSION PAGE

We can’t wait to read your students’ work in our Tenth Narrative High School Writing Contest! A few reminders as you begin: you must fill out a new submission form for each student. Teachers are allowed to submit no more than a total of 10 student poems, stories, or letters for this year’s contest, and each school no more than 30 works in total.

Participating is easy and open to high school students grades 9–12 worldwide. Just follow the steps below.

1. Sign up for Narrative:
Are you registered for Narrative?

2. Create a school/teacher profile:
Now that you’re a registered member of the Narrative community, the next step is to create a submission profile for your student. (Note: each student will need a separate submission.)

  • Please provide the name of your school:
  • Street Mailing Address:
  • Your name:
  • Your contact email address:
  • A phone number where we can contact you should one of your students be a winner or finalist:
3. Create a student profile:
  • Student’s first name:
  • Student’s last name:
  • Contact email address:
  • To be eligible for the contest, writers must be students between grades 9 and 12 worldwide, and their poems must be original works, previously unpublished, either in print or online (including on social media and blogs), and unadulterated by machine-generated text. We’ll ask contest winners and finalists to show their proof-of-age, but for now, to the best of your knowledge, can you attest that your student’s work is eligible?

4. Upload your student’s work
Now that you’ve created your Student’s Contest Profile, there’s only one more step: upload your student’s entry! A reminder that submissions must be between 10 and 50 lines long (excluding the title and line breaks), while letters (essays) and stories must be no more than six hundred words. Only one submission per student.

  • Title:
  • Category:
  • Upload your submission file here:
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