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Call for Student Poetry for the Poetry Route!
Open theme for students in Junior High and High School only!
The Edmonton Poetry Festival seeks your poems on what matters to you for the next flight
of The Poetry Route, a project that puts poetry onto public transit vehicles! The only catch - you must be a student in junior high or high school.
Inspire us. Educate us. Tell us what's important to you. Wax poetic about your love of winter - or not. Just write! Write us a poem and maybe it will end up on Edmonton Transit for eight weeks! We look for strong writing in all poetry styles, whether lyrical, experimental, or form poetry. Send us your best.
Four winning poems will circulate on ETS buses and LRT cars for a minimum of eight weeks, launching mid-February. We provide an honorarium of $100 to each of the four poets whose work is chosen. The submission deadline is January 1st.
Here are the rules
Entrants must be residents of the greater Edmonton area and in junior high and high school. Poets whose work has been chosen in the last year are not eligible. You may submit up to three poems.
Entries must be original work and are limited to a maximum of 10 lines including blank spaces. Space on the bus plaques is limited; keep your line length to 10 words per line. Submit poems in a word doc.
Email submissions to [email protected]. On a separate document include a one-line author statement of 20 words or less with your submission as well as your email address and telephone number.
We encourage youth of First Nations, culturally diverse and LGTBQ youth to submit!
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