Received an interesting email from Clare, at bookhabit.com. Regarding a poetry contest. Should be worth looking into . . .
Hi
I thought the readers of your website might be interested in our competition and was hoping you could post details on your site.
Bookhabit.com, in association with the New Zealand Poetry Society, are staging an international poetry competition that celebrates written and performance poetry.
US$2600 in prizes
Free Entry
Written, audio and video submissions received
All categories, ages and countries.
The competition began on 22 September 2008 and entries must be submitted before 2 November. Each week 100 poems advance to the second round, so don’t wait until the closing date to submit your entries.
Full entry details are below.
Kind regards
Clare
poetry contests are exciting. So are book sales. Friends of the San Francisco Public Library just completed their annual big book sale last Sunday. There were 25,000 boxes, with 40 or so pounds of books in every box, to be redistributed one way or another. Except for a few rare or first editions, no book cost more than $5. Hardback mysteries, fantasy, etc. sold for $1 each, paperbacks of the same for $2. At the end of the sale, representatives of the police department took as many of the remaining paperback genre books as they could load in their pickup, for distribution in jails and prisons. I was a volunteer, setting up tables, putting up books, answering questions, and it was fun. Thousands of people attended; some came from out of state and from Mexico to stock up. I don’t know how much money we made; it all goes to support various SF public library functions. The sale is over for this year, but will return same time next. Here’s a link to information about it: http://www.friendsandfoundation.org/
@Carol Polk -
Thanks, Carol. A good cause indeed.