How to Become a National First Reader

Download our First Reader Guidlines (116kb Microsoft Word Document)

You have already taken the first step toward this position. Please attend to the following steps in order to complete the process.

1. Send the following information to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
   1. Name
   2. Address
   3. City, State, Zip
   4. Graduating Class of _______
   5. High School Name
   6. High School Address
   7. High School City, State Zip
   8. Name and Email Address of Student’s English or Writing Teacher
2. Buy a copy of the magazine. In addition to giving you the opportunity to see, read, and get a good sense of the magazine, it also allows us, a small way, to measure your interest in Polyphony H.S. and in this position. Please understand, though, that we are far more interested in having good First Readers than we are with selling the magazine. We trust that once you learn more about us and our mission, your work as ambassadors for the magazine will do much more for us than your purchase of the magazine. That said, if you can handle it:
   
   
   1. go to swag and buy a copy now or
      
      
   2. write a check out to Polyphony H.S. for $10 ($10.00 cover price, plus $3.00 shipping and handling) and send to:

      Polyphony H.S.
      c/o Educational Endeavors
      1535 N. Dayton St.
      Chicago, IL 60642

      (Please write your name and FIRST READER in the memo space on the check.)

3. When we receive your personal information via email, we will immediately get you started by giving you a National First Reader Account.
4. Read this packet carefully. At this point, if you’re still with us and still willing to take on a national leadership position in the most important literary magazine in the world, let us know and we’ll see to it that you get assigned a submission.