Golden Key North American Chinese Poetry Competition for Non-Native Speakers

Golden Key Cultural Center is organizing a Non-native Speaker Chinese Poetry Competition and calling submissions from young poets age 6 to 18. 

Entries: 

• Submit a poem of any style in handwritten Chinese characters with pinyin on the top of each character 
• Submit a hand drawn image to accompany the poem 
• Submission can be a scanned pdf or image file. No name should be written on the submission page
• Submissions must be your original work, previously unpublished
• You may submit up to two pieces for the contest
• Please complete this entry submission form with your name, age, address, contact email and phone
• Entries will be read anonymously by a panel of judges 

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Contest Rules

• Eligibility:
  • Between age 6 to 18
  • Non-native Chinese speakers*

*Non-native speaker means that the person does not speak the language as a mother tongue AND does not live in an environment that speaks it.

• Categories:
  • Elementary Division I (age 6 to 8) 
  • Elementary Division II (age 9 to 11)
  • Middle School Division (age 12 to 13) 
  • High School Division (age 14 to 18)
• Winners:
  • Golden Key: one winner will be selected from each age category.
  • Silver Key: one winner will be selected from each age category. 
  • Bronze Key: one winner will be selected from each age category. 
• Contest Deadline:  July 31, 2019, 11:59 pm EST

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Prizes

Gold Key Winners

• A $50 Cash Prize
• A Certificate of Winning
• A month of free access to Chinese Online Learning Site (Details TBD)
• Be published in the Golden Key Chinese Poetry Selection 
• Be published on local Chinese newspaper
• More to come: TBD

Silver Key Winners

• A Certificate of Winning
• A month of free access to Chinese Online Learning Site (Details TBD)
• Be published in the Golden Key Chinese Poetry Selection 
• More to come: TBD

Bronze Key 

• A Certificate of Winning
• A month of free access to Chinese Online Learning Site (Details TBD)
• Be published in the Golden Key Chinese Poetry Selection 
• More to come: TBD

Judge Panel

We are currently finalizing our judge panels. We will announce our judges here soon. Stay tuned!