Students are invited to enter a youth poetry contest sponsored by The Westport Garden Club, the Westport Library, Town Poet Laureate Jessica Noyes McEntee and the Westport Arts Advisory Committee.
Who Can Enter?
The contest, affiliated with the National Garden Club's Youth Poetry Contest, is open to students kindergarten through grade 9 including public and private schools and home-schooled students.
This competition enables youth to embrace their creativity through the art of writing. The theme of the contest is:
“Seeds, Trees, and Bees…Oh My – Celebrating the Diversity of Nature”
Guidelines for Entries:
- All entries must be typed and titled.
- Include the participant's name, address, age, grade, and school on the back of the entry and the preferred email address for correspondence
- All entries become the property of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
- Poems do not have to rhyme.
- Poems may be traditional verse, acrostics, blank verse, cinquains, diamond poems, limericks, or Haiku.
- The theme should not be used as the title of any poetry. (When judging, the title is worth 10 points.)
Judging Scale of Points
- Title: 10%
- Content: 40%
- Creativity: 30%
- Style: 20%
- Total: 100%
Entries should be sent by January 6, 2023, to westportctgardenclub@gmail.com
To view guidelines and see the 2022 winning entries, please visit:https://www.gardenclub.org/poetry-contest
Original source can be found here.