Book-Spine Poetry Contest – Spring 2025
Hello, all poets and creative writers. We invite you to join in the fun!
To celebrate poetry month, we are running one of our most popular events… A Poetry Contest!
What Is Book-Spine Poetry? “Book-Spine Poetry is a poem made using the titles of books as the words and lines in your poem.“
How to make your poem:
- Use books from home, a friend or family member, a library or a store.
- Stack the books up to create your poem and take a picture.
- We want you to find physical books to make this poem! If you can not get to a library or a place with enough books, you can make a poem with images. However, these MUST be images of actual book spines, not images you created.
Who May Join? This competition is open to HCOS & FLEX students in Grades K – 12.
Number of entries: Students may enter up to three (3) poems each.
Contest Dates: April 7th until 10 pm on Sunday, June 1st. After the contest closes, the judges will review all the entries, and winners will be announced in the following week(s).
Book-Sipine Poetry Contest – Spring 2025
Sign up through the MachForm if you are interested in participating. Contact information will be used to contact the winners.
Step 2
Create your poem and fill out the Poem Entry Template.
Step 3
Upload your Poem Entry Template into the correct grade range on Padlet.
Things to know:
- Minimum Books Used: K-Gr.3 = 3 Books. Gr.4-7 = 5 Books. Gr.8-12 = 8 Books.
- Maximum Books Used: 20
- To rhyme or not to rhyme? Many poems rhyme, but you could also write a free verse poem, which means it does not have to rhyme throughout.
- Minimum Entry Cap: We need more than ten entries by the closing date to run this contest. If there are fewer than ten entries, the contest will be cancelled. This does not by any means reflect the quality or talent of the entries that have been submitted.
- If you have any questions or issues, please contact the contest facilitators: HCOS – Erin Duncan eduncan@onlineschool.ca, Flex – Kelly Ruggles (kelly.ruggles@onlineschool.ca), or ask on LiveChat.
- Prizes will be Amazon gift cards.
- To view all of the poems, sign into Padlet.
There are some wonderful poetry resources available through our libraries and subscriptions! You can use these to have fun learning about poetry or to help you in writing poems of your own.
Physical Poetry Resources are available through the Search Portal.
Subscription Resources: The passwords to our subscriptions can be found on the Subscriptions page.
- Discovery Education – Poetry Content, Grades K-12
- Teaching Books – Resources and activities to go with poetry titles.
- Learn360 – Poetry Content
- Enchanted Learning – Poetry Content: Find Elementary resources, including writing prompts, work pages, colouring pages and more
- World Book – Poetry Content World Book Kids (K-Gr.4), World Book Student (Gr. 5-8), and World Book Advanced (Gr. 9+)
- RightNow Media – THE POETRY BOOKS: SCRIPTURE SNAPSHOTS
