Beverly Hopkins Poetry Contest for High School Students
Congratulations to our 2021 Winners!
FIRST PLACE
Oviya Srihari, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
Partition as Narrated by an American Daughter
SECOND PLACE
Grace Ruo, Hazelwood West High School
African in America
THIRD PLACE
Cedric Bruges, St. Louis Priory School
Building Sandcastles
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Lara Wulff, Central Visual & Performing Arts High School
Cicada Funeral
Rachel Voss, Fort Zumwalt South High School
Moonshine Boy
Oviya Srihari, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
Advice from Your Daily Horoscope
Congratulations to our 2021 Finalists!
Eric Boles, Parkway South High School
Dear Mr. Mammoth
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Cedric Bruges, St. Louis Priory School
Building Sandcastles
Kat Crawford, Kirkwood High School
How Long Does It Last?
Thomas Daniel, St. Louis Priory School
Contentment
Sofia Erlin, Clayton High School
Winter Is Coming
Amputation
Mackenzie Hahn, Red Bud High School
Thematic Free-Verse
Julia Joseph, Visitation Academy
Days Again
The Child
Carmen Lumpkins, Webster Groves High School
Who Took My Soul?
Sarah Corrigan, Visitation Academy
Through the Cracks
Ainsley Martin, Visitation Academy
To My Future Spouse
Anna Padousis, Visitation Academy
Dollgirl
Gypsy
Grace Ruo, Hazelwood West High School
African in America
Oviya Srihari, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
Advice from Your Daily Horoscope
Partition as Narrated by an American Daughter
Brooklyn Amira Stubbert, Jefferson High School
A Touch that Wasn’t Wanted
Rachel Voss, Fort Zumwalt South High School
Moonshine Boy
Fortune Misfortune
Kate Wexell, O’Fallon Township High School
Political Fugue
Lara Wulff, Central Visual & Performing Arts High School
Cicada Funeral
Terrible Bird
SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED
First Prize: $225
Second Prize: $125
Third Prize: $75
Winning poems will be published in Saint Louis Poetry Center’s annual chapbook, of which prize winners receive a free copy.
2021 Contest Judge:
Marjorie Maddox
Submissions Open:
December 1 – March 1
Entry Fee:
None
GUIDELINES:
- Open to all high school students in the St. Louis metro area living within a 100-mile radius of St. Louis
- Submit up to 3 typed poems per entry, any form and length
- No manuscripts will be returned
- Poems previously published in high school publications are allowed
- Include name (no pen name required) and email address on each poem
- Enclose a cover sheet that includes: name, address, phone number, email address, high school, grade, teacher’s name (if she/he/they encouraged or assigned the poems), and the titles of the poems submitted
- Contest results will be announced in May
Prize winners and honorable mentions are invited to read their poems at Saint Louis Poetry Center’s annual Poetry Concert.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email* entries to:
[email protected]
*If submitting entries by email, attach cover sheet & poems as separate Word or PDF documents. Google Drive documents are discouraged.
Mail entries to:
Saint Louis Poetry Center
Hopkins High School Poetry Contest
3301 Washington Ave. 2D
Saint Louis, MO 63103
EMAIL & POSTMARK DEADLINE: March 1, 2021
Congratulations to our 2020 Winners!
FIRST PLACE
Rowan Elliott, Gateway Science Academy
Adagio
SECOND PLACE
Adam Figueras, St. Louis Priory School
If a Girl Kept All Her Kings in the Back Row
THIRD PLACE
Amina Aser, Parkway West High School
My Lost Art Project
Congratulations to our 2019 Winners!
FIRST PLACE
Megan McGhee, Kirkwood High School
Oldest Moon
SECOND PLACE
Ann Zhang, John Burroughs School
Doomsday: The Asian Superstore
THIRD PLACE
Rachel Lyu, St. Louis University High School
Untitled (The World After Wine)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Christina Giudici, Nerinx Hall High School
Rocket Science
Sarah Corrigan, Visitation Academy
Through the Cracks
Madeline Burns, Parkway West High School
February, in a White Nissan Versa