Click Here to Read/Listen to Last Year's Winners: http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/poetryall.cfm
Click Here to reread/print "This Contest and Your Poem: A Primer for Novice Poets" by Stan White (pdf): http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/stanspoetryprimer.pdf
You must submit YOUR OWN original work. Your poems may have been published elsewhere as long as the YOU the author still hold the copyright.
If YOUR work has been previously published please indicate where and when so that we can acknowledge this.
Maximum length should be 55 lines including spaces between stanzas. Typed entries are preferred.
Deadline: Entries will be accepted from January 1 - February 14, 2010.
Submissions will be accepted in three age categories:
Child: up to 11 years old
Youth: 12-17 years old
Adult: 18 and older
All styles will be considered - free verse, rhymed verse, limerick, haiku, sonnet, etc.
Maximum three poems per contestant. YOUR NAME SHOULD NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE ON YOUR POEMS!
Judges will select the top ten poems in each category.
These will be displayed at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts and the Cambridge Libraries during National Poetry Month (April) 2010.
Finalists will be invited to read their work at a public celebration of poetry on Friday, April 16, 2010 at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts.
No cash prizes will be awarded but finalists will receive a gift certificate from the Book Express.
By entering your submission you are granting permission to publish any winning entry on the Cambridge Libraries website,
AND to making an audio version of the poem available on the website, AND to its publication in a small booklet to be presented to all winners,
AND agreeing to its display at the Cambridge Libraries and the Cambridge Centre for the Arts.
You may enter either of three ways:
1 / Online form and text box at the bottom of this link: http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/poetryform.cfm
2 / Using a downloadable PDF file version of the Official Entry Form, your entries may also be mailed to:
Linda Foster - Poetry contest
Queen's Square Library
1 North Square
Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6 CANADA
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM: http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/poetryentryform2010.pdf
3 / Applications may be handed in at any branch of the Cambridge Library or at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts in Cambridge, Ontario Canada
USING THE OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM: http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/poetryentryform2010.pdf
GOOD LUCK! / BON CHANCE!
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