Amy Bender Webb
Become one of the writers at the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book!
Student authors in grades 5-12 are invited to create original poetry or prose for submission to the Virginia Festival of the Book Poetry and Prose Contest. If a student’s piece is selected, the student’s work will be printed in a booklet, and the student will be invited to read the piece aloud in a special event on March 15. Prose may not exceed 1,000 words. Poetry may not exceed two single-spaced pages. Submissions are due by February 15. Guidelines can be downloaded here.
Additionally, students in grades K-12 are invited to enter the 2011 Poster Contest. This free-style poster design contest is open to all students enrolled in public, independent, and home schools in the City of Charlottesville and County of Albemarle. The subject of the poster should be book, literacy, or reading related and the work must include the text “Virginia Festival of the Book.” Winners will be honored on March 19 and all entries will be on exhibition at the Central Branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library before the Festival. Submissions are due by February 25. Guidelines can be downloaded here.
For more information about either of these contests, please call 434-982-2983 or email Susan Coleman.
