PB POETRY FESTIVAL Launches 12th Annual Poetry Contest for Local High School Students

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Sept. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL Launches 12th Annual Poetry Contest for Local High School Students

Submission Deadline is December 1, 2015

(Delray Beach, FL – September 15, 2015)  Blaise Allen, Ph.D., the Director of Community Outreach for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, today announced that the non-profit organization has launched its annual Palm Beach County High School Poetry Contest, co-sponsored by the Delray Beach Center for the Arts.

Between October 1 and December 1, any Palm Beach County public or private high school student can submit one original poem (30 lines maximum) for consideration. Original poems should be submitted by email before December 1 to: PBPF1@aol.com. For contest rules, please visit   http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/event/high-school-poetry-contest-2015-16/ .

The winning poet will receive $100, and the four runner-up high school poets will each receive $25. In addition, all five winners will receive a one-year subscription to Poets and Writers Literary Journal, plus a pair of tickets to the Coffeehouse Performance Event with Marc Smith, the founder of Slam Poetry, and Dominique Christina, a Woman of the World Slam Champion. This will be held on Saturday, January 23, 9:30 pm, in the Delray Beach Center for the Arts Vintage Gym.

The five winning high school poets will read their poems at the Festival’s Award Ceremony on January 18, 2016 at 4 pm, and the poems will be published online at www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

The judge for the annual High School Poetry Contest will once again be Dr. Jeff Morgan of Lynn University’s Department of English.

As a special incentive to encourage submissions to the High School Poetry Contest 2016, the teacher whose students submit the highest number of poems will receive a pair of free tickets to a Festival event of his/her choice.

About the Palm Beach Poetry Festival 2016:

The 12th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be held January 18-23, 2016 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts. The Festival will feature top poets at numerous ticketed public events, including readings, talks, interviews, panel discussions and more. The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is generously sponsored by Morgan Stanley, the Windler-Keel Group of Morgan Stanley’s Atlanta Office; the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County , the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council and the Board of Commissioners of Palm Beach County; The Palm Beach Post; Visit Florida; WLRN; and Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach’s independent bookseller.

For more information about the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, please visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org.

Available for Interview:

Blaise Allen, Ph.D.

Director of Community Outreach

Palm Beach Poetry Festival

954.729.8007

blaise@palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

Media Contact:

Gary Schweikhart

PR-BS, Inc.

561.756.4298

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