The 19th Annual Aileen Jaffa Poetry Contest is underway. This contest is for students living in or attending school in Stanislaus County. The deadline is April 12. Forms are available at county schools, McHenry Museum, the Mistlin Gallery, the downtown Modesto library, or the Salida library. For more information contact Cleo at cleor36@yahoo.com.
On October 5th MoSt will host a poetry reading and potluck for Pathways, an organization helping youth transition out of foster care. For more information about the merits of Pathways, and to receive the guidelines for submitting poems for a chapbook the sales of which will benefit Pathways, please contact info@mostpoetry.org. We hope you will consider …
WD's Annual Writing Competition has an early-bird deadline on May 4th--if you enter by May 4th, the entry fee is lower! Rules and information here.
SEEKING POEMS The Biggest Valley: Poems from California’s Heartland will showcase poems written by individuals who were born, raised, or have lived or worked for at least five or more years in California's Central Valley. The anthology will be published by Sugartown Publishing in the spring of 2016. For more info, download the PDF flyer.
March 11th is the deadline for this year's Modesto Poets' Corner contest! The guidelines are up at https://www.modestogov.com/prnd/poet_corner.asp. Share the link and let everyone and their parents know that this contest is out there!
EDITED: The deadline has been extended to January 1st! Today is the deadline for our first annual Lee Nicholson-George Rogers Award! Read more about the contest here.
