SEQUIM — Poets across the North Olympic Peninsula are invited to participate in the inaugural Rainshadow Poetry Competition, an all-ages event with the theme of “A New Beginning.”
The deadline to enter poems is 5 p.m. Jan. 23, while guidelines are available at www.wideawakepublishing.com under “Poetry.” Information is also on the “Rainshadow Poetry” page on Facebook.
This competition will culminate in several events during National Poetry Month in April: poetry writing workshops at North Olympic Library System branches, a gala reading at Olympic Theatre Arts in Sequim on April 26, publication of a chapbook and the printing of winning poems on posters, which will be mounted in windows around downtown Sequim.
Open to all
The competition, open to adults, teens and children in Clallam and Jefferson counties, is dedicated to Jim Fisher, a Peninsula College professor and prolific author and poet who died Nov. 2.
The competition rules include:
■ Writers can submit up to three poems.
■ Submitted poems can be a maximum of 25 lines each.
■ Entry fees are $5 for poets in kindergarten through 12th grade, $10 for adults and $7 for seniors 65 and older.
“Encourage your friends to submit poems. Encourage your children and grandchildren. Maybe even you will write a poem and submit it,” co-chairwomen Ruth Marcus and Judy Duncan write in their news release.
“This is about enjoying ourselves as a community committed to literary and theater arts,” they write.
“Our goal is to make this an annual collaborative community event.”
