Contest Rules

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

• Open to all who either live, work or go to school in North Andover
• Submit in one of 5 age categories: Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, Middle School, High School, Adult
• The poems can be any style. They can be rhyming or free verse. Write a poem however the theme speaks to you.
• The top three in each category will be invited to perform their poems on the North Andover Common
• By submitting a poem, the author / parent / guardian gives the North Andover Poet Laureate Committee the right to publish the poems online and on the FB North Andover Poets page, and in a collected book of poems for the event.
• Parents/guardians of school age children have the right to approve what identifying  information for school age children is published: 1) the name, school, and grade, 2) initials, school and grade, or 3) only school and grade is published.
• The poem copyright remains with the author.