The Woman’s Club of Westfield invites all aspiring student poets and authors from kindergarten through high school to enter its 2019 Youth Poetry and Short Story Contest.
Please submit the material in duplicate to Woman’s Club of Westfield, 151 Hamilton Avenue, Westfield, NJ 07090 postmarked before Thursday, February 14th, 2019.
Poetry entries may be any style with a minimum length of eight lines and a maximum length of thirty lines. Short stories are limited to 2,000 words. Entries must be typewritten, double spaced, with a minimum of one inch margins, on one side of an 8 inch by 10 inch paper. A student may enter one short story and/ or poem.
The author’s name, address, email address if available, telephone number, student’s grade and school, title of piece should appear in the top right hand corner of each page. All entries are judged on content, organization and form. Decision of the judges is final. Writing must be the original, unpublished work of the author, written during the last year. Authors must be amateurs with earnings from writings not to exceed $500 annually. Writers may want to keep a copy of their work as entries cannot be returned.
