It is time to register for the Scholastic Writing Awards and determine which categories you will enter.  The deadline to send your work is December 11th.  Cost is $5 for sophomores (optional), juniors (required) and seniors (optional) in individual categories and $20 for seniors (required) in portfolio categories.  Go to http://artandwriting.org for more information.  If you miss the Dec. 11th deadline, the cost goes up $5 to $10 per entry.

Go to the website below for local details:
http://artandwriting.org/SubmissionGuidelines/ShowGuidelines?zipCode=22192&workType=W&x=10&y=11#cv_793 

If you need help after school, you can come in any day.  I am usually here until 3 P.M. five days a week unless I have a meeting.  I am also here on Tuesdays and Thursdays until 4 P.M.
 
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Thanks,
C. Hailey

See http://www.center-for-the-arts.org/catonmerchant/09%20EnterOff%20the%20Wall.pdf form formatting and mailing instructions.  Remember they will only read the first fifty poems they receive before Dec. 1.  You can only enter by mail and only by individual student mailing.

 What is the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest?
Now in its forty-seventh year, the contest is sponsored by Hollins University and awards prizes for the best poems submitted by girls who are sophomores or juniors in high school or preparatory school.

What are the prizes?
First place (one winner)
$200 cash prize 
Free tuition for the university's two-week Hollinsummer program where a creative writing class is offered
Publication in Cargoes, Hollins’ student literary magazine 
Ten copies of Cargoes 

Second place (six winners)
$25 cash prize 
Publication in Cargoes 
Two copies of Cargoes 

What are the requirements?
Students must submit their poem(s) online. Students must have a faculty sponsor.
No more than two poems by any one student may be submitted, and manuscripts cannot be returned (Microsoft Word or text document only) 
Please label additional pages with the author's name, title of poem, and page number 
Each entry must include the following information on the poem(s):
o Author's name
o Author's mailing address
o Author's phone number and/or e-mail address
o Year of author's high school graduation
o Faculty sponsor's name and e-mail address
o Author's school
o Address of author's school 
o Phone number of author's school 


What is the deadline for entries?
November 15.

Who chooses the winning poems?
Winners are chosen by students and faculty members in the creative writing program at Hollins.

When are winners notified?
March 2010.

Who was Nancy Thorp?
Nancy Thorp, Hollins class of 1960, was a young poet who showed great promise when she was a student. Following her death in 1962, her family established the Nancy Thorp Contest to encourage the work of young poets.

Want to know more about Hollins’ creative writing program?
Hollins University’s creative writing program is nationally recognized as one of the best in the country. The program has received acclaim in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Southern Living, and Esquire for the work of its graduates and for its distinctive approach to teaching. To learn more, click here. To learn more about Hollins' undergraduate program in English & Creative Writing, click here.

For a list of the more than 1,000 books by Hollins alumnae/i: www.hollins.edu/grad/eng_writing/books/bookfrm.htm

 PJ's are due Monday, 10/26!

 November:  Only on Fridays with Jordyn Bushong, Curtis Goad, Renfred Harper, Kevin Sullivan

January: Above the Sky with Rodrigo Castellanas etc.

We still need bands to play in March and May! See Mrs. Hailey to apply or make a suggestion.

The first Unplugged Eddas Coffee House will be Wednesday, October 21st. Sign up to read your original writing, perform music or dance, and display artwork. Registration forms are in the Eddas Room 1000. Please submit writing or lyrics along with the form. Costumes are encouraged at this coffee house, and the winners of the Halloween Horror Contest will be announced. If you're still working on an entry for the contest and you can't finish it by today, please email it to eddassubmissions@yahoo.com by Monday. We will continue the judging Monday and Tuesday after school, so we will need Eddas members to stay after for judging.

Eddas 2009 Qualia is on sale now!
Cost:  $12
 Purchase in the Eddas room or outside the cafeteria when sales are set up.

Eddas 2010 can be pre-ordered for $10.  It will cost $12 when it arrives in June.

For Response Assignment Due Fri., Oct. 16th.