Week 2 of National Poetry Month has come to a close.
- Click here to check out the selection of poetry we shared last week.
- Follow Poetry Month celebrations at @CanadianPoets or at #NPM17 and/or #poeticmoment
For Week 3 we are pleased to announce a number of Poetry Contests – with approaching deadlines – that students are encouraged to enter. Of particular note are:
- The Ontario Book Publisher’s Organistion’s What’s Your Story? Short Prose and Poetry Competition for Emerging Writers (due May 1st)
- subTerranian’s 15th Annual Lush Triumphant Literary Award (due May 15th)
- Tethered by Letters Poetry Contest (due June 1st)… and also Short Story and Flash Fiction, with variable due dates
- Antigonish Review Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest (due June 30th)… and also the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize
- The CBC Poetry Prize (due May 31st)
- Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest (due June 1st)
- The Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Prize (due July 1st)
- The Poetry Institute of Canada Young Writers and All Ages Poetry Contests (due July 31st)
These are but a sampling of poetry – and related – writing contests which are open throughout the year and welcome student submissions. For a full inventory, and additional information about these and other contests, please refer to this shared Google Doc (mostly updated for this year!!)
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REMEMBER also to enter the 4th Annual ESA Library Student Poetry Contest.
Poems must:
- be on the theme of time;
- be titled;
- not have been previously published;
- be formatted for 8.5″ x 11″ paper; and,
- be no longer than 50 lines.
All entries must be submitted by no later than Friday April 28th.
- Entries should be submitted via e-mail to Ms. Wray, in the Library.
- E-mail: enid.wray@tdsb.on.ca
The top three entries will each receive a collection of poetry, as well as publication on the ESsays Creative Writing Blog.
- Publication in, and a personal copy of, the print edition of ESsays is also included.
Good luck…
