Fresh Voices Competition



Since 1993, student poets from all corners of Connecticut have entered this prestigious competition-and-mentoring program. If you are a high school-age poet, take a chance on yourself and submit. Ask a teacher, mentor or experienced poet to help you select your best work.







Download 2012 competition guidelines with entry form (PDF)

Who may enter: Any Connecticut high school-age student who has not won this competition previously.

Entry deadline: Postmarked or emailed no later than March 1, 2012.

To Enter:
• Complete the 2012 entry form

• Submit no more than five pages of original poems with a maximum of two poems per page. Include your name at the top of each page.

• Mail your form and poems to:
Sarah Wadsworth, Poetry Coordinator
Fresh Voices Poetry Competition
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT 06032.

OR email form and poems to poetry@hillstead.org.

Winners:
• Finalists are announced by April 9, 2012

• Finalists are invited to read before select judges at Hill-Stead Museum on Saturday, April 14, 2012

• Four to six winning poets are announced by April 20, 2012

• Winners will be asked to email their poems in Microsoft Word format to poetry@hillstead.org.

• Winners will be photographed in a group for chapbook, program book and other promotional material.

• Winning poets will read at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on June 2, 2012 (all winners must be available to read on this date)

Awards & Opportunities

• Reading at Hill-Stead's renowned Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s Young Writer's Day on June 2, 2012

• Performance workshop on May 5 at Hill-Stead, where professional poets will mentor students on their reading

• Poems published in a special edition chapbook; winners receive five copies each

• DVD recording of Young Writer's Day.

For more information call 860.677.4787 ext 134 or email poetry@hillstead.org.