Sherry Chandler

Human Rights Poetry Contest

Poets for Human Rights is proud to sponsor two poetry contests - the Anita McAndrews Award poetry contest and the Alexander Popoff Youth Award poetry contest.

Guidelines for the Anita McAndrews Award poetry contest:

Anita McAndrews (1924-2005) was a poet, writer, award-winning investigative journalist and prolific artist. She lived in Panama City, Panama for thirty-five years, where she taught English as a second language to inner-city children, hosted her own weekly radio program, served on the board of the National Museum and was a founding member of Panama’s Art Museum. Her last fifteen years were spent in Clearwater, FL, where she advocated for human rights and tutored at the Community Learning Center.

The contest is open to anyone. $100 first prize. The winning poem will be read at the International Human Rights Day event in Clearwater, Florida, on Sunday, December 10, 2006.

Contest judge will be Cindy Childress. Cindy Childress served as Poet-in-Residence at the Pinellas County Girls Correctional Facility 2002-3. She was awarded the Marcella Siegel Memorial Award in 2005 and the first place Christina Sergeyevna Award in 2006 for her poetry. Her work has been published in such places as The Red Booth Review, Southern Hum, The Southwestern Review, The Canadian Women’s Studies Journal, and many anthologies. Currently she is working on a manuscript of poetry for a creative dissertation toward her Ph. D.
in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Submission guidelines:

1. Poems must relate to human rights. Familiarity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is recommended. For a copy of the UDHR, visit http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html.

2. Submissions may be in any form, any length up to three letter-sized pages.

3. Previously published poems are accepted, if rights have reverted back to the author.

4. $1 reading fee per poem, in US Dollars.

5. Each poem must be typed on a separate sheet of paper, 10 or 12 point font.

6. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover sheet that includes author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, poem titles, and permission to publish.

7. Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2006.

Mail submissions to:
Stazja McFadyen
100 Waverly Way, #310
Clearwater, FL 33756

Guidelines for the Alexander Popoff Youth Award poetry contest.

Alex Popoff (1978-2002) was a young man who experienced life with positivity and optimism. The Popoff family has kept human rights and unity as core values for generations. Although Alex’s life was cut short by complications due to cystic fibrosis, his impact on people reached beyond his immediate sphere of influence. Heartbroken by the capacity of humans to harm one another, he signed the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, just months before he departed. The Alexander Popoff Youth Award poetry contest was established by his sister, Georgia Popoff, community poet and human rights advocate based in Syracuse, New York. Georgia will be the final judge for the contest.

$100 (US Dollars) first prize. Submissions are open to youth aged seventeen and younger. There is no reading fee. Poems must relate to human rights. Familiarity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is recommended. To view and download an abridged copy of the UDHR, visit http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/un_declaration_text/un-declaration.htm

Submissions may be sent in the body of an email, along with name, age, address, email address, and a brief bio.

Send submissions to stazja@verizon.net or stazja@yahoo.com. Write “Alexander Popoff Youth Award submission” in the subject line. Deadline is November 15, 2006.

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