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Announcing the Ninth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest!
How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can creative expression help us process our personal responses to issues we encounter in the news? Students and young adults are invited to explore these questions and make their voices heard in their entries to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest.
Current K-12 students and young adults ages 18-24 anywhere in the world may enter. Poets may write in any language, and are welcome to submit multilingual poems. Judges will have reading fluency in English and Spanish.
Prizes:
$300, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
$200, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
$100, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
$75, publication on the Pulitzer Center website
K-12 students and young adults will be judged in separate categories. Winners will be selected for each of the Pulitzer Center's five focus areas: Climate and Environment, Global Health, Human Rights, Information and Artificial Intelligence, and Peace and Conflict.
Deadline: Sunday, May 10, 2026, 11:59pm EDT
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