The contest is intended for children, teenagers, and adults, worldwide. There will be three categories:
1. Children grades 1-6
2. Children & Young Adults grades 7-12
3. Open (Adults)
When submitting your poem, please use the submission form and include your name, city and country of origin, email address, mailing address where you can be contacted, and your category.
To be judged in the contest, poems must be in English. If the poem was originally written in another language, the original may be included for reference along with the English version, if the poet so desires.
Poems may be on any astronomy, night sky, or space-related subject.
Poems may be in any style or form. It is preferred that they be less than 30 lines in length.
The contest winners will be chosen by a panel of judges. Prizes to be announced later.
Astronomers Without Borders would like to thank the following sponsors for donating prizes for this contest:
Share a line of your poem with or without an image on Facebook or Tweet using #GAM2014 (@gam_awb).
