The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competition for USA School Grades 7-12 - Children - youngsters - young adults- teenagers

The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial  Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12 (USA)
Ages 12 years to 18 years old
Deadline: In hand by March 25, 2018.
Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of September 2017 may enter.

THE NICHOLAS A. VIRGILIO MEMORIAL HAIKU AND SENRYU COMPETITION 
FOR GRADES 7-12

Founded by the Sacred Heart Church in Camden, NJ, and sponsored by the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in memory of Nicholas A. Virgilio, a charter member of the Haiku Society of America, who died in 1989. The Haiku Society of America co-sponsors the contest, provides judges, and publishes the results in Frogpond journal and on the Haiku Society of America (HSA) Website.

FULL DETAILS are available 
at the Haiku Society of America website:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm

Useful guidelines for teachers are on the web link above.

Also you can simply scroll down to previous winners all on one webpage:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/virgilio.htm

Frogpond is the HSA journal and is a high-quality publication for adults and young persons, and a great publishing credit for any of your students to appear:
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html


Nick Virgilio Haiku Association 
https://www.nickvirgiliohaiku.org
https://www.nickvirgiliohaiku.org/contest

"As lead tutor of Call of the Page, President, United Haiku and Tanka Society, and a Japan Times award-winning writer, I highly recommend this competition to all teachers involved in grades 7-12 in the USA."

Alan Summers
President, United Haiku and Tanka Society
co-founder, Call of the Page
https://www.callofthepage.org

The Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7-12

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm

Deadline: In hand by March 25, 2017. Entries received after that date will not be accepted.

Eligibility: Any student in grades 7 through 12 enrolled in school as of September 2016 may enter.

Regulations: Submit up to three haiku per student. 

All haiku or senryu must be previously unpublished, original work, and not entered in any other contest or submitted elsewhere for publication. Please follow the guidelines carefully. Publication is defined as an appearance in a printed book, magazine, or journal (sold or given away), or in any online journal that presents edited periodic content. The appearance of poems in online discussion lists or personal websites is not considered publication. Judges will be asked to disqualify any haiku that they have seen before.

Permissions:

By entering the contest, you are granting permission for the Nicholas A. Virgilio Haiku Association and Haiku Society of America to print the award haiku and/or senryu on the Web.
ALSO, by entering the contest you are granting permission for the Nicholas A. Virgilio Haiku Association to print your poem in any possible future haiku anthologies sponsored by NVHA. Contestants may opt out of publication by emailing <NickVirgilioHaiku@gmail.com>. 

Submissions: 

New Online Submissions:
The NVHA & HSA have implemented a new online web submission process to simplify entries in the Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition. We STRONGLY encourage all submissions online but will still accept paper submissions this year during the transition. 

Go to online entry form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmU-wEipEFcSJEQ3MA7f_Cb3NBfONsqV6vV3IW4EV7YSfLnw/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=send_form

Contest page: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/virgilioawards/Virgilio-contest-guidelines.htm 

History and Purpose of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association

Mission Statement

To promote the creative and spiritual exercise of writing haiku and other poetry by all - and especially by young people- as a way to encourage literacy, appreciation of nature and human nature, and the value of connected community. Also, to further the work and poetry of Camden's son, Nick Virgilio on our own and in partnership with academic, civic, cultural and other institutions and their resources.

https://nickvirgilio.squarespace.com/about/