Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Poetry At Car Wash As Young Writers Entry Deadline Is Imminent

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CT YOUNG WRITERS
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Dionysiac Deadline Demo
aka
Poetry At

  • The Car Wash

  • &

    DON'T FORGET
    TO ENTER THIS CONTEST
    BY MARCH 15



    The CT Young Writers Trust presents A Celebration Of Springtime & The Arts, Sunday, March 13, 2011, featuring poets, writers and live music at three locations in Litchfield.

    The event -- also known as Dionysiac Deadline Demo -- highlights the March 15, 2011 postmark deadline for the 14th annual Connecticut Young Writers Competition.

    The competition awards winning entrants with cash prizes and an opportunity to have their work published in Connecticut Review, the literary journal of the Connecticut State University System. Young writers from across Connecticut, ages 13-18, must be nominated by a teacher in a public or private school. Home schooled students also are eligible. Each entrant should submit one entry to the prose or poetry competition postmarked on or before March 15, 2011.

    Now in its 14th year, the competition has awarded nearly $200,000 in prizes. More than 6,000 students have participated.

    Sheldon Gaskell, the 2010 state prose champion and still a high school student, encouraged his peers to enter now as he reflected on last year's ceremonies. "It means so much to me," Gaskell said, "that there are people and organizations that appreciate the talents and contributions of writers in the world."

    The Dionysiac Deadline Demo -- inspired by the ancient Greek literary and fertility festivals -- begins at 2 p.m. March 13 at Hair Cuts Etc., 457 Bantam Road, Litchfield.

    To highlight the deadline last year, the Young Writers Trust presented a day and night of poetry, music and boxing at The Hartford Club. In 2010 the competition received its highest number of entries ever -- 795.

    At the event, Co-Master of Ceremonies Rand Cooper, the author and travel writer for Bon Appétit, remarked: "What are we going to do next, have a poetry reading at a car wash?"

    Cooper returns as Co-MC this year with Ravi Shankar, the poet and professor at Central Connecticut State University. Both Cooper and Shankar serve as board members and judges for the CT Young Writers Trust.

    Following the reading at the barber shop, the festivities will proceed at 3 p.m. to the Litchfield Car Wash, 475 Bantam Road.

    At 4 p.m. the event moves to Frank Rosa's La Cupola Ristorante & Inn, 637 Bantam Road.

    Gaskell, a student at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Suffield Academy, will perform March 13 along with Shankar, poet and teacher Lisa Taylor and Iceman John Scully. Scully, a retired professional boxer who now works as a trainer and commentator for ESPN, is the author of a manuscript called "The Iceman Diaries."

    Other poets and writers might join the group as deadline approaches.

    The music program at La Cupola will feature the Jen Allen Jazz Combo with Cosmic Jibaros leader and guitarist Ricardo Reyes and the vocalist, DominiQue.

    There is no admission charge for the event, but donations will be accepted by the CT Young Writers Trust, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit charity.

    Detailed information on the contest can be found at the
  • Young Writers Trust Website

  • Entry forms can be downloaded from the menu on the right side of the page.

    Also check us out under CT Young Writers

    on Facebook

  • Ct Young Writers Trust Facebook Page

  • and Twitter
  • Twitter@CtYoungWriters

  • Finally, plz see

  • AUTHOR RAND COOPER'S LETTER TO TEACHERS, WRITING COACHES & ADMINISTRATORS ON BEHALF OF YOUNG POETS & WRITERS


  • Contacts:

    Lee Preston
    , Haircuts, Etc., 860-567-1128
    Patrick Muscillo, Litchfield Car Wash, 860-361-9255
    Frank Rosa, La Cupola Ristorante & Inn, 860-567-3326




    NOTE TO SPONSORS :
    THANK YOU 4 KEEPING THIS PROGRAM ALIVE

    -- 2011 PROGRAM SPONSORSHIPS
    R AVAIL AS FOLLOWS:

    * biz card in program, $250

    * finalist sponsor,
    $500

    * state champion sponsor, $1,000

    all donations greatly appreciated and publicly acknowledged

    --------------plz send checks 2

    CT Young Writers Trust
    390 Shore Drive, Branford CT 06405

    http://www.ct.edu/initiatives/ctyoungwriters/
    501 (c) 3 Federal Tax ID: 31-1635811


    thank you thank you thank you
    ------------------------------------------

    RON WINTER
    Executive Director, hjrwinter@comcast.net, 860-228-6803
    CAROL THIBEAULT
    Administrator, ctbeau@yahoo.com, 203-843-1423
    ATTY WILLIAM CROWE
    Legal Counsel, wcrowe@mayocrowe.com, 860-275-6801
    ANDY THIBAULT
    Chairman, tntcomm82@cs.com, 860-690-0211

    Watch For Announcement
    Of Our Annual Celebration
    In June 2011

    http://www.ct.edu/initiatives/ctyoungwriters/
    ENTRY DEADLINE IS MARCH 15, 2011 POSTMARK

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