Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest

This contest is sponsored by Hollins University and awards prizes for the best poems submitted by girls who are sophomores or juniors in high school.

First place (one winner): $200, plus free registration, transportation to, and housing for the Lex Allen Literary Festival at Hollins University on March 10, 2012.

Second place (six winners): $25 and publication in Cargoes.  Two copies of Cargoes.

Requirements: 

• Students must be sophomores or juniors in high school
• Poems must be submitted online
• Students must have a faculty sponsor
• Each student may submit no more than two poems (Microsoft Word or text document only)
• Addtional pages must be labelled with the author's name, the title of the poem, and a page number.

Each entry must include:

• Author's name
• Author's mailing address
• Author's phone number and or email address
• Author's school
• Address of author's school
• Phone number of author's school

The deadline for this contest is Tuesday, November 15, 2011.