Category: Contests

City of Modesto Poets’ Corner Contest

The City of Modesto’s Poets’ Corner Contest is accepting submissions until this Friday, March 9, so get your poems in today! Winning entries will be published in a chapbook and poets invited to a public reading on May 6, 2018. Please use official Poets’ Corner guidelines and entry form (PDF) to submit your work.

2018 Poetry Festival Contest Winners

We are proud to congratulate our winning poets from the 2018 Modesto Poetry Festival’s poetry contest. Names and winning poem titles are listed below by category. Thank you to everyone who attended for making this year’s event another success! Category: Arrivals and Departures 1st Place         Winter Iris  by Jennifer Lagier, Marina, CA 2nd Place       BART Rides  …

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Aileen Jaffa Young Poets Contest Now Open

This contest is offered as a means of encouraging young writers throughout Stanislaus County and as a way to remember poet Aileen Jaffa, the founding President of the Poets of the San Joaquin and member of the Modesto Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Any student enrolled in a Stanislaus County school, …

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Submit to our Young Poets Contest

MODESTO-STANISLAUS POETRY CENTER THE SECOND ANNUAL LEE NICHOLSON – GEORGE ROGERS POETRY CONTEST CONTEST GUIDELINES MONETARY PRIZES!!! DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2018 ABOUT LEE NICHOLSON AND GEORGE ROGERS Beloved by generations of their students, Lee Nicholson and George Rogers dedicated much of their lives to teaching and inspiring the youth of our community. Lee Nicholson was …

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Congratulations to Stanislaus County Youth Poets!

This year, MoSt Poetry was thrilled to be involved again at the local level in the national youth poetry recitation competition Poetry Out Loud. MoSt board members put in hours of volunteer work at local high schools, making presentations and mentoring competitors, and the hard work of students and board members alike paid off–our Stanislaus …

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