Applicants are invited to apply for the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize.
Donor Name: Academy of American Poets
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 11/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help readers recognize the vulnerable state of environment.
Funding Information
First place will receive $1,000; second place, $750; and third place, $500. In addition, all three poems will be published in Poem-a-Day series, distributed to 500,000 readers. Poems may also be featured in award-winning education series Teach This Poem, which serves 35,000 educators each week.
Eligibility Criteria
Any poet who meets one of the below criteria on the date of the application deadline, in any given year, is eligible to apply:
- U.S. Citizen
- Resident of the United States for the ten-year period prior to the submission deadline, or
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Legal Permanent Status (LPS), or any subsequent categories designated by the U.S. authorities as conferring similar enhanced status upon non-citizens living in the United States.
- Please note: By law the Academy of American Poets must report cash prizes awarded to individuals to the Internal Revenue Service. If individuals have a Social Security Number (SSN) or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), the individual will receive a 1099. If the individual does not have an SSN or ITIN, the individual will receive a 1042 and could be subject to a withholding of a percentage of the cash prize.
- The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of environment at present.
- Poets may submit only one (1) poem for consideration.
- The poem submission must be an original work and be previously unpublished.
- The poem submission should not contain any information that would reveal the identity of its author.
- Poems may be submitted in Spanish but must be accompanied by an English translation.
- Performance or Spoken Word poets may submit an audio recording of their submission.
- Poets are not eligible to apply if they have studied with the poetry judge in full-time accredited courses within the last three years.
- There is no entry fee.
- The Academy of American Poets assumes no responsibility for poems not received due to user error. Applicants may verify the receipt of their submission by logging into Submittable.
- Applicants may submit poems elsewhere simultaneously but must notify the Academy of American Poets immediately if the poem is accepted for publication by another publisher.
- Current Academy of American Poets staff and Chancellors are not eligible to submit.
- The Academy of American Poets cannot consider poem revisions during the course of the contest.
For more information, visit Academy of American Poets.
