The Lebanon Community Library is pleased to announce the eleventh annual Poetry Contest. The contest will run from January 4 through February 26, 2010 and is open to all ages. There will be twenty winners (ten from each age group – up to eighth grade and ninth grade to adult).
Poetry contest rules are as follows:
- All contestants must be living in Lebanon County and must be members of The Lebanon County Library System.
- Contestants are limited to two entries and each poem must be no longer than one 8.5” x 11” page.
- Each entry should be typed or printed clearly; please do not add illustrations. Place your name on the page with the poem.
- Each entry should have an entry form stapled to it.
- Entries may be mailed or brought in person to The Lebanon Community Library, 125 North 7th Street, Lebanon, PA 17046, or you can email your entries as Word attachments to volunteers@lclibs.org. If this method is selected please include all the entry form information in the body of the email.
- Poems that have been submitted to other contests or those that have already been published will not be accepted as entries.
Entry forms are available at the library or at http://www.lclibs.org/lebanon/poetryentryform2010.pdf
Winners will be posted by April 1, 2010; at that time, contestants and the general public will have the chance to order a bound volume of the winning entries for purchase. For additional information please contact Karen Stump at 717-273-7624, or volunteers@lclibs.org.
