Veterans for Peace Cape Cod Chapter accepting submissions for 15th Annual Peace Week Poetry Contest

Winners to be chosen in fourteen categories--K-12 and adults

The Veterans for Peace Cape Cod Chapter is accepting submissions for its 15th Annual Peace Week Poetry Contest. Peace Week is being celebrated April 11-17 this year.  The contest is open to all Cape and Islands writers.  Winners will be selected from 14 categories,  K-12 graders and adults.

• Poems should focus on (a) thoughts of peace and the abolition of war, hate or violence; (b) what I can do to make a peaceful world for all; (c) some of the ways war can be avoided; (d) inner peace; or (e) examples of nonviolent attitudes and actions.
• Contestants may submit only one poem of no more than 50 lines, rhymed or free-verse.  Please try to keep the poem to one 8 1/2" x 11" page as poems will be copied for a booklet to be given to all contestants.
• The title, author's name, address and phone number should appear at the top of the page.  Entries for K-12 should also include grade, name of school, town and teacher.
• All entries must be original and unpublished.  Previous prize-winning poems are ineligible.  Help with spelling and grammar is permissible at appropriate levels.

Entries must be mailed to:

Veterans For Peace
39 Muskeget Lane
Centerville, MA 02632 

Entries must be received by (not just postmarked) 5pm on Friday, April 2, 2010.

Judging and winner selection will be done by the Guyer Barn Poets of Cape Cod.  Judges will place 1st Honors place (prize $25), 2nd Honors place ($15 gift certificate from a local bookstore) and Honorable Mentions. 

If too few entries are received, judges reserve the right to declare no winner. 

For more information, call (508) 771-3915.

Courtesy Veterans for Peace Cape Cod Chapter.