Each year the High School Students of Santa Cruz County are encouraged to write poems and enter them in the annual competition. Poetry Santa Cruz is conducting the Competition in coordination with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the county’s high schools, and with volunteer support from members of the community.  The authors of the three poems judged best will receive cash prizes.  An anthology will be printed with the approximately 50 poems selected by the panel of judges.

What students need to know  to enter the Competition:

• You must be a high school student and residing in or attending a school in Santa Cruz County.
• You may submit up to 3 poems.
• Poems in English and Spanish are welcome.
• Poems must be typed.  Hand-written poems will not be accepted.
• To ensure that each poem is judged strictly on its merit, your name must not
  appear on the same page as the poem(s) you submit.

• A panel of three judges will determine the winning poems.
  Therefore, send us three copies of each poem you submit.

• Because the poems will represent our county high schools, we ask that the language of all submissions be appropriate for publication and reading in schools and in the wider community.

• Submit with your poems one Title Page with the following information on it:
 - Your name, phone number and mailing address
 - Your teacher’s name and your school’s name
 - The titles of the poems you submit.