from Alan Ball, tireless after-school club leader and above-and-beyond volunteer encouraging kids’ creative writing:
Students through Grade 8 : Submit Poetry for Contest and Possible Publication. Prizes Announced. Email entries to kid <at> 12zine.com
WANTED: POEMS. New Poems, or Poems You’ve Already Written, poems you wrote because you love to write, or poems you wrote for a school assignment.
Poems should be submitted by April 30, and voting will begin! Latecomers welcome but may miss some votes! Do it now!
All poems entered will be put on the Kid! POETRY CONTEST WALL web page http://12zine.com/poetrycontest.html for everyone to read in April, which is National Poetry Month, and readers will vote for their favorites. Enter one or more, up to 5, of your best poems. All poems must be your own original work.
Besides the chance to be published, there are prize awards for the voted-best entries at all grade levels! Email entries to kid <at> 12zine.com. Go to http://12zine.com/kid to read the great magazine that is sponsoring this contest, and which will publish the winning poems!
Prizes for Poetry Contest Announced
Winners will receive Packs of Bonus Points That Can Be Used to Choose their Own Prize from the Writers’ Arcade selection (or save points toward bigger prizes). You also get the regular 1 point for 10 words published. http://12zine.com/prizecounter.html
Poetry prizes:
Voted blue ribbon (most votes overall, grand champ): 300 points (ONE winner)
Voted red ribbon (2nd most votes overall) 200 points (ONE winner)
Voted yellow ribbon (3rd most votes overall) 100 points (ONE winner)
Best in grade: 100 points each, to the top vote-getter in each grade in which there is no blue, red or yellow ribbon winner, but at least 3 students who get votes (Up to 6 prizes of 100 points each)
Alternate best in grade will go to the 2nd top vote getter in each of those grades in which there is a ribbon winner and at least 4 vote-getters. (up to 3 prizes of 50 points each).
Writers’ Arcade gift examples with points needed to claim:
$25 Gift Card to Store of Your Choice (300 points)
$15 Gift Card to Store of Your Choice (175 points)
$10 Gift Card to Store of Your Choice (125 points)
Movie Ticket Pack for 2 (6th – 8th graders only) (250 points)
Cub reporter bear (100 points)
World’s cutest dog (250 points)
Save points for bigger prizes: Digital cameras starting at 600 points, Kindle readers starting at 600 points. No time limit.
You always get 1 point for every 10 words published in Kid! magazine. The Writers’ Arcade offers a large variety of gifts starting at 10 points, including offbeat as well as practical things!!!!
Reminder: FICTION Contest, Deadline May 15, 2013. Awards to be announced.
http://12zine.com/Vol2April2013.html
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