2011
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
YOUTH POETRY CONTEST
Divided into four age groups (Grades 1-3, Grades 4-6,
Grades 7-9, Grades 10-12). The contest's purpose is
to recognize and promote excellence in poetry writing
for local students! $50 First Place, $25 Second Place
prizes will be given to the winners during a formal
awards presentation by 2010 Poet Laureate, Grant Clauser,
on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at The Ambler Theater
(Ambler, PA). Go
here to enter >>
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2011
ELIZABETH GRAEME FERGUSSON AWARD IN POETRY
The
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson Award in Formal
Poetry will be a yearly award of $1,000 to
a High School student (grades 9-12) from Montgomery,
Bucks, Chester, Delaware, or Philadelphia
counties who has submitted the best example
of a poem written in any form. Go
here to enter >>
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2011
SARAH MOOK
POETRY PRIZE
Sarah
Gail Mook was a student in the third grade at Buckingham
Friends School in Lahaska, Pennsylvania, when she
died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm on December 14,
1995. Sarah started writing poems in kindergarten.
It is the goal of this outreach that Sarah's gift
continue to inspire young poets. Enter
here >>
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