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It’s time again for the Carnegie Center’s annual Legacies Writing Contest for Writers Over 55.
Awards will be offered for the best entries submitted: Poems, stories, essays, or memoirs drawn from the author’s personal history.
The cash prize is $100 for first place and $50 for second.
Winners and finalists will participate in the annual Legacies Reading at the Carnegie Center on Tuesday, March 4 at 6:30 pm, when the Legacies Medallion, donated in memory of Carole Pettit, will be presented.
Entries will be judged by a qualified panel.
Writers over 55 should submit manuscripts up to 1500 words (about five typed, double-spaced pages, which may include up to five poems).
There is a $10 reading fee per five-page entry, payable to the Carnegie Center.
Entries should include a cover page complete with author’s name, address, email address, phone number, and date of birth. Names should NOT appear on the entry itself.
Deadline for submissions is SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9. Entries most be postmarked or received by that date.
Send submissions to:
LEGACIES
The Carnegie Center
251 West Second Street
Lexington, KY 40507
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In this mortal frame of mine, which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices, there is something, and this something can be called, for lack of a better name, a windswept spirit, for it is much like thin drapery that is torn and swept away by the slightest stirring of the wind. This something in me took to writing poetry years ago, merely to amuse itself at first, but finally making it its lifelong business.
—Matsuo Basho, late 17th C.
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