Pages & Places Second Annual Poetry Contest
ANNOUNCING the 2011 P&P Poetry Ceremony Winners!
Come to hear the students read their winning submissions at
noon on Saturday on Courthouse Square.
Division 1: Grades 3-4
Winner
- “Confusion Illusion”
- by Frank Santomauro
- North Pocono Intermediate
Honorable Mention
- “Ode to Rain”
- by Katya Williams
- Newton-Ransom Elementary
Honorable Mention
- “Peacefully”
- by Jared Bozinko
- St. Jude School
Division 2: Grades 5-6
Winner
- “Trying to Stay Alive”
- by Rachel A. Jones
- St. Jude School
Honorable Mention
- “If I Were in Charge of the World”
- by Christian Koshinski
- St. Jude School
Honorable Mention
- “The Slow Killer”
- by Calista Uher
- Riverside
Division 3: Grades 7-8
Winner
- “Vanishing Warrior”
- by Ellie Jule Sullum
- Abington Heights Middle School
Honorable Mention
- “Night in the Forest”
- by Erica Stuccio
- St. Jude School
Honorable Mention
- “Speechless”
- by Abigail Rose Wolfgang
- St. Jude School
Division 4: Grades 9-11
Winner
- “Things Will Continue to Change”
- by Lyndsay F. Bartos
- West Scranton High School
Honorable Mention
- “Vincent the Prince”
- by Pia Ripley
- North Pocono High School
Honorable Mention
- “Must”
- by Victoria Sterling
- West Scranton High School
P&P 2010 Kids Fest Poetry Contest Winners
Young writers from throughout Northeastern PA are invited to submit a poem for Scranton’s Pages & Places Book Festival Poetry Contest. Any student in grades 3-11 residing in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whether in public, private, charter or home school is eligible to participate.
The contest is being organized by the Pages & Places Book Festival in collaboration with the Lackawanna County Library System, the Mulberry Poets & Writers Association and the Northeast Educational Intermediate Unit.
Process: Submissions are due August 15, 2011 and will be judged over the summer by members of the Mulberry Poets & Writers Association. The winning poems will be announced in September, read by the writers at an awards ceremony at the Pages & Places Book Festival on October 1, 2011 and published on www.pagesandplaces.org. Prizes will be awarded to each division winner with a $20 gift certificate from Outrageous and Pages & Places @ Anthology in Scranton.
Guidelines: Submit one poem on a theme of your choice. All submissions must be the original work of the writer entering. One winner will be awarded in each of the following divisions,
along with two honorable mentions.
- Division 1: Grades 3-4
- Division 2: Grades 5-6
- Division 3: Grades 7-8
- Division 4: Grades 9-11
Submissions: Must be received by or postmarked August 15, 2011. Entry forms and information can be found online at www.pagesandplaces.org.
Email: Entries can be submitted by email to
poetry@pagesandplaces.org as a Word document or included in the body of the email. All the information requested on the entry form must be typed in the document or email.
Postal mail: The poem can be handwritten on the lines provided or typed and submitted together with the detached entry form. Mail to the following address:
Pages & Places Poetry Contest
Lackawanna County Library System
520 Vine Street
Scranton, PA 18509
