The Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers

The Claudia Ann Seaman Poetry Award has formed a partnership with a student-run national literary magazine for high school students based in Chicago. Polyphony H.S. is an innovative not-for-profit publishing project that exists not only to publish teen writers, but also to train high school students in the arts of editing and producing a magazine. The hope is that the award, now named the Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers, will advance the Polyphony H.S. mission to encourage teen writing and reading. The magazine will accept submissions online at www.polyphonyhs.com. Entries may also be submitted to Contests@teenreads.com.

Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction submissions sent directly to Polyphony H.S. will automatically be entered in the Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers. Polyphony H.S. submissions will receive comments by at least two editors through a secure website. Submissions received through Teenreads.com or through the Community Foundation of Dutchess County will be considered for publication in the following issue of Polyphony H.S., as long as the author will still be a high school student in the next academic year. The deadline for the Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers will remain June 1st. 

Open to: All students in grades 9–12

Submission: Each participant may submit a total of three poems, essays, or stories (2,500-word limit for fiction and creative nonfiction)

Deadline: Entries must be received by June 1, 2009

Cash Award: $500 award for each genre and publication in the following issue of Polyphony H.S.

Award Announcement: September 20, 2009

Each entry must contain the following information:

• Student name, address, phone number, email address, year of HS graduation (Class of _______)

• School name, address, phone number

• Name and email address of student’s English or writing teacher

Mail entries to:
The Claudia Ann Seaman Awards for Young Writers
The Community Foundation of Dutchess County
80 Washington Street, Suite 201
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845-452-3077

Or submit entries online via Teenreads.com at: Contests@teenreads.com

Or submit entries at:
www.polyphonyhs.com

For additional information: Donna Seaman, 800-545-2433, ex. 5754, or email dseaman7@aol.com