Annual Contests & Awards

River of Words

The International Environmental Poetry And Art Contest, River of Words joins with Earth Team For Joint Entry.

Win a trip to Washington D.C. and be honored with an award in The Library of Congress! Earth Team is also offering to members an additional Grand Prize of $150 and four $50 Prizes to Runner's Up!

Send in your entry and add Earth Team to the heading and be eligible for Earth Team’s prizes as well.

Deadlines: Domestic entries must be postmarked by February 15th. International entries must be received by March 1st.
There is no charge to enter the contest. Every entry will be acknowledged.

The River of Words Project is an international environmental poetry and art contest designed to nurture respect and understanding of the natural world. The ROW Project is co-sponsored by the International Rivers Network, the Library of Congress Center for the the Book and United States Poet Laureate, Robert Haas. The project is broken down into age groups between 5 and 19.

Each year 8 National Grand Prize winners (4 in poetry and 4 in art) and one international winner will be chosen to go to Washington, DC with their parents, where they will be honored at an award ceremony, luncheon, public reading and art show at the Library of Congress. River of Words also honors a "Teacher of the Year" and a San Francisco Bay Area and a Washington, DC Area winner annually.

Thousands of American students have participated in ROW. A booklet with many runnerups poems is published annually. The project has a variety of classroom and field activities that are explained in a curriculum guide.

For further information on this incredible project, go to www.riverofwords.org or call (510) 848-1008.