Voices above the Notch Young Poets’ Contest
Theme: Your
life, your place, your poems--your
home has a rich poetic tradition. Add your voice to the chorus.
Guidelines:
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Poem should be about
you, your community, or the landscape around you.
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Poem should be your
original creative work.
·
There
are no restrictions on form or line length, though each poem should be no
longer than one page in length.
·
Public
school, private school, and home-school students are equally welcome to
participate.
·
All
submissions must be received by March 1, 2020 and must be entered by a
sponsoring teacher or adult through the form on Submittable online: https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit/152423/2020-voices-above-the-notch-poetry-contest.
·
The
link to Submittable and information about the contest are also found on The
Frost Place website:
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Students
may submit 1-2 poems.
·
Poems
should not have any identifying information included, and should be uploaded as
one document.
Finalists and
runners-up for each level will be notified in writing after March 25th, 2020
through their sponsoring adult via email, at which time permissions to use and
publish will be forwarded for students and their parents to complete and
return. The winning poems will be submitted to local news media/ newspapers
during April to celebrate National Poetry Month. The finalists and runners-up will
be invited to share their poems at our Early Frost celebration on May 20th
in the Henry Holt Barn.
Prizes for
finalists and runners-up will be bookstore gift certificates, printed
broadsides for the young poets to sign, and copies of a Frost book.
Grade level
groupings are as follows:
·
Grades
5-6
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Grades
7-8
·
Grades
9-12
We are pleased
to announce that this year’s judge will be Dawn Potter, Director
of the
Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching.
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