4th Annual Pets Add Life
Children's Poetry Contest
Submit Your Poem Today!
Your individual, or classroom poems are now being accepted for the 4th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest!
It’s so simple to enter! Just write a poem about pets- what you love about them, the joys they bring, and post it here or mail to: Pets Add Life 661 Sierra Rose Dr. Reno, NV 89511. (All mailed entries must include this submission form as well).
You could win:
a by-line in everydog Magazine, a nationally circulated publication,
A $250 gift card for pet products, AND
A $1,000 scholarship for your classroom for pet-related education!
Six winners, one per grade level will win!
Deadline for submissions is February 29, 2012 at 5:00pm EST.
Would you like to read some of our previous winners’ poems? Click here!
If you are a teacher, please feel free to send your classroom’s poems in one package, with one submission form included so that we may contact you if one of your students’ poems wins.
Are you a member of the media? Click here to download our contest press release.
Please contact Brooke Gersich at The Impetus Agency, 775-322-4022 or brooke@theimpetusagency.com for more information.
Good luck, creative kids!
You must be a current third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth grade student to enter.
We welcome creativity, and are completely open to any pet related poem topic or theme. Students can choose to write about their own pets, how much they love their pets, how their pets are best friends, specific joys the pets bring them, why they have a pet, how the pet likes to play, how a pet has changed their lives, or even about a relationship with a relative’s/friend’s pet, etc...
Poems should not exceed 100 words.
The top 6 poems will be published in an issue of a major pet consumer publication, and each winner’s parent or legal guardian agrees to the use of the winner’s name, picture and the publication of the winning entry.
Each winner will receive a $250 gift certificate for pet products.
Six winning poems (1 student for each grade level) will be selected nationally, and those student’s classrooms will receive a $1,000 scholarship (each) to spend on pet related education such as a field trip for their class to an area animal shelter, zoo or other pet related venue, books, or pets in the classroom.
Submitted poems must be original and cannot reflect the work of another author.
Judging:
Our panel of judges will select the top 6 most creative, well-written, inspiring and/or compelling pet poems. All decisions are in the judges’ complete discretion, and are not subject to review.
There will be 6 grand prize winners whose classrooms will each receive the $1,000 scholarship for pet related education.
How to Submit Your Entry:
The Deadline for Submissions is: February 29, 2012 at 5:00pm EST.
You may submit your final entry either by 1) entering online here; or 2) by downloading a PDF of our submission form and mailing your submission form, and final entry to:
Pets Add Life (PAL)
661 Sierra Rose Dr.
Reno, NV 89511
Winners will be notified by March 11, 2012.
