About the Contest
Congratulations to our 2023 Spring into Poetry contest winners. This year, we challenged all aspiring poets to pen verses read in 3 minutes or less (4500 characters max), and our community certainly delivered! Poems of all kinds were submitted and will be added to our growing local collection of short form literature published online through the Short Edition and Biblioboard (details about Biblioboard) digital collections.
Winning Entries
Ages 0-7
- 1st Place: Krish “The Little Trash Truck”
- 2nd Place: Sairaghu Subramoniam “Spring Brings Hope”
- 3rd Place: Vibhuraj Kasliwal “The Power of Spring”
Ages 8-9
- 1st Place: Emma Lin “Mother Nature”
- 2nd Place: Roslyn Louise Pollock “A River of Hope”
- 3rd Place: Ian Quan “Rain”
Pre-teen 10-12
- 1st Place: Josie Gammache “A Library is a Wishing Well”
- 2nd Place: Rowan Carnes “Sonnet 1: A Tale of Tarts and Wolves”
- 3rd Place: Riddhiman Rana “Bee the Voice of Change”
Teens 13-17
- 1st Place: Hyeunjoo Chung “A Victim Dreams of an Empire”
- 2nd Place: Alexa Berenice Campos Castro “Fleeting”
- 3rd Place: Jeong Park “Infatuation”
Adults 18+
- 1st Place: Barbara Simmons “Confessions of a Non-Swimmer”
- 2nd Place: Shu-Hsien Ho “Climbing Fish”
- 3rd Place: Liliana Cotner “Shooting Cars.”
Prizes
Each winner will receive a gift certificate to local bookseller Hicklebee's, a recently published poetry book, as well as an assortment of goodies to help keep the words and creativity flowing. Congratulations again, winners, and to all who participated! We look forward to seeing more submissions in our writing contest this fall.
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