NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Jan. 23.
SEQUIM — The deadline to enter the inaugural Rainshadow Poetry Competition is at 5 p.m. today.
The contest is open to Clallam and Jefferson County residents of all ages.
The fee for entry is $5 for those in kindergarten through 12th grade, $10 for adults and $7 for those 65 or older.
Chosen poems will be published in a chapbook, and authors can be part of an April 26 gala reading at Olympic Theatre Arts in Sequim.
Poems should be written around the theme of “A New Beginning.”
Each author can submit as many as three poems of up to 25 lines each.
The Rainshadow Poetry Competition is sponsored by Olympic Theatre Arts and dedicated to Jim Fisher, the late writer and Peninsula College professor. Fisher died of cancer Nov. 2.
Poems can be submitted by email to judy1ster@gmail.com with the participant’s name, address and phone number included or by regular mail to Judy Duncan/Poetry, P.O. Box 1033, Sequim, WA 98382, enclosing a check for the entry fee made payable to Olympic Theatre Arts.
