Poetry Submission Guidelines

All poetry for Islamic Writers Alliance Annual Poetry contests must conform to the following general guidelines.  Poems that do not adhere to these standards will be automatically disqualified from the competition.

·         Poetry must be Islamic in theme in nature

·         If contest has a theme for the year, poem must fit within the selected Theme

·         Poetry must be from at least 2 but no more than 100 lines

·         Poetry may be of any `type' of poetry including but not limited to ballad, couplet, iambic pentameter, quatrain, cinquain, sonnet, haiku, epic, free verse, and even light verse, limerick and spoken word

·         Poetry contest has 3 categories of submission

o   IWA Members –

o   Adults – authors  18 and over who are not members of IWA

o   Youth – authors under the age of 18 who are not members of IWA

·         Maximum of 1 submission per individual

·         Entries that have won previously cannot be resubmitted

·         Poems will only be accepted as plain text (ASCII) format in the body of email , as an attachment in Microsoft Word or as an PDF.

·         Poems must be submitted via email

·         Poems must be submitted to poetrycontest@islamicwritersalliance.net

·         Poems must include authors name, category, email address, mailing address and phone number and title of poem

·         Poems that are submitted by youth under the age of 18 must also include a statement from a parent or legal guardian authorizing the IWA's public use of poem on the website

·         Teachers may submit `class' poetry as individual submissions from one school

·         Poems are the legal property of the author

·         IWA retains the right to disqualify and reject submissions deemed inappropriate