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Wonderverse |
Poetry Contest
| Ideal for 6-13


Wonderverse Video

Wonderverse is a poetry contest guaranteed to ignite imaginations in any classroom and get your students writing.

Teach your students how to write poetry as they enter the Wonderverse, where anything is possible and imagination and creativity come alive!

What is Wonderverse? It's an exciting world of poetry and anything your students want it to be!

Inspire your students to dive into creativity to write a poem about any topic. Using any style or technique, they can write about incredible worlds or fantasy creatures, express their inner thoughts or emotions, describe their favorite people, places or hobbies, or write about your class topic.

Check out the video trailer

Benefits of Entering

🌟 Colorful graphic organizers to help your students plan their poems

🌟 Opportunity for your students to be published in a real book

🌟 Tie in with your class topic or book for cross-curricular links

🌟 No limits on poetry style or subject

🌟 Bookmark for every entrant and certificate for students chosen for publication

🌟 Free to enter

There's a wealth of free resources available to download, including example poems from past winners, a lesson plan and accompanying PowerPoint slide deck (also available as Google Slides), and how-to writing guides for poetry styles and techniques.

Wonderverse is ideal for 6-13 year-olds, but students outside the age range are welcome to enter, so it's a great opportunity to get your whole school writing!

Your students will love letting their imaginations run free, and we can't wait to see what they find in their Wonderverse!

Closing Date: Friday Dec 20, 2024

We've worked with over 20,000 schools. Here's what some of them have to say...

This is my sixth year using YW to publish my students' writing and they are so easy to work with! My students are always excited to use the provided theme and challenge themselves to be chosen!

Katie Miller, Blue Eye High School
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Wonderverse PowerPoint
Poetic Techniques Worksheet
Online Writing Portal Teacher Guide
Word Doc Entry Form
Parent Information Guide
Wonderverse Teacher Entry Form
Wonderverse Poem Generator
Wonderverse PowerPoint PDF
Examples
Wonderverse Graphic Organizer
Lesson Plan
Teacher Info Card

Competition Rules

To make sure your entries are valid, please follow the rules listed below:

Closing Date: Friday Dec 20, 2024

  • Only one entry per student. 
  • There is no limit to the number of entries per school. Teachers please submit your entries altogether where possible!
  • Ask your students to write their poem (or an adult can scribe/type it), ensuring their name, age and school name are included.
  • Work can be on the entry form or a letter-size sheet of paper or typed (on a computer or in the Online Writing Portal).
  • Students' poems must be their own work! 
  • Please note on the entry if there is anything we need to take into consideration when reading the work.
  • No line limit
  • Poems can be written in any style
  • US entrants only.
  • Free to enter.
  • Ideal for 6-13 year-olds. (Students outside this age range are welcome to enter.)
  • Copyright remains with the author.

If you are unsure on any rules or have any queries, please don't hesitate to Contact Us.

For Schools

The school that submits the best set of entries will win Young Writers' Award of Excellence.

PLUS every participating school receives a free copy of the book their students feature in!

(Remember, you receive 1 free copy for every 30 entries you submit! E.g. 1-30 entries you receive 1 copy, 31-60 entries you receive 2 copies, etc. Every participating school will receive at least 1 copy of the book their students feature in.)

For Pupils

Our 3 favorite published writers will each win a fantastic creative writing goody bag!

PLUS

Every entrant receives a bookmark, and we award a certificate of merit for all young writers chosen for publication.

(School and student winners will be chosen from entries received Nov-Dec 2024. Goody bag image is an example, contents may differ.)

Enter Online

  Email

Email your entries to [email protected]

  Upload

Upload your entries

  Entrants type their entries online

Why not combine literacy and ICT by using the online writing portal? Entrants can type their work and you can submit them at the click of a button!

Writing Portal

  File Sender Services

You can use different file sender services to enter digitally, such as: WeTransfer, Google Classroom, Dropbox, Send Anywhere, Egress, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Smash, Files.com, Apple iCloud Drive, FileCloud

Please ensure your name, email and school name and address are included with your entries if you send entries digitally via a non-Young Writers service.

Send by Post

Send your entries, along with your school entry form, to:

Young Writers Elementary
77 Walnut Street
Unit 11
Peabody MA 01960

We can't wait to read your students' poems!

Jenni, Editor

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Young Writers Elementary
77 Walnut Street
Unit 11
Peabody MA 01960

Closing Date: Friday Dec 20, 2024