Teen Poetry Contest

Grades 7-12
Word Up!
Teen Poetry Contest 2011
Do you have notebooks full of poetry or verses written in the margins of your scribbler? Free verse or rhyming, sonnet or haiku - no matter what you write, we want it! Submit your poems for a chance to win great prizes!!

Prizes:

Prizes will be awarded in both junior and senior high categories
1st place$100 Gift Card
2nd place$50 Gift Card
3rd place$25 Gift Card


Deadline:Entries must be entered online by:
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 5 pm

Awards Event:Winners will be announced, and prizes awarded at the Word Up! Teen Poetry Contest 2011 Awards Event on Saturday, November 26, at 2pm at the Keshen Goodman Public Library.

For more information please read the contest guidelines and fill out an entry form at http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/teens/contests.html or check us out on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Halifax-Public-Libraries-Teens/59889380949

Youth Human Rights Contest

Junior high and high school students ...


Put your creativity to work for a good cause!
Enter the Partners for Human Rights
Human Rights Creativity Contest
for International Human Rights Day

This year’s theme is
Unity in our Communities
It’s also the United Nations International Year of Youth,
under the theme Our year. Our Voice.
This is your year! Use your voice and creativity
to tell us how to make your community stronger.

Express yourself through:
• Poetry/Spoken Word
• Art (for example, illustration, digital graphics, photography)
• Music (for example, songwriting, music videos)
All entries must be received by November 26, 2010.

Winners will receive prizes on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2010.
Submit your entry and submission form by:
E-mail: hrcinquires@gov.ns.ca
(Please include Creativity Contest in the subject line)
Mail: Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
P.O. Box 2221, Halifax, NS B3J 3C4
Fax: 902-424-0596

(Please include Creativity Contest on the cover sheet)

Questions?

Call 902-424-4111