MWA Poetry Contest

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This is a wonderful opportunity for the older writers in the homeschooling world.


Announcing the Muslimah Writers Alliance First Annual People's Choice Poetry Competition and Blog!
The Muslimah Writers Alliance First Annual People's Choice Competition held in conjunction with National Poetry Month, April 1-30, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, is a free-style category contest open to anyone age 12 and up.This event is designed to support creativity and fun with writing in honor of National Poetry Month! Yes, it's a little early to start thinking about April, but not too early to start thinking about writing that poem! If you would like to enter your poem in MWA's First Annual People's Choice Poetry Competition, please be sure to include contact information when emailing your entries to: http://us.f326.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=PoetryContest@MuslimahWritersAlliance.com. Limit: 3 entries per person. There is no fee for entering this competition.DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 21, 2006. Contest 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be announced and winning entries posted May 1, 2006, Insha'Allah. (Prizes to be announced, subscribe to contest blog for updates.) Copyright remains exclusive to you, the author and will be indicated at the bottom of each entry. VOTING: Each entry will be voted on by YOU the reader! The MWA contest blog has been set up to receive comments (votes), however, only registered users will be able to vote via the blog in order to deflect duplicate votes from being made. If you do not wish to vote as a registered user, you may cast your vote via email. A comment (vote) link is shown under each entry posted on the contest blog. When commenting (voting) on entries, please leave your Poem Rating. Each poem is rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest. Any comment/vote that does not specifically include a rating will not be counted as a vote. Submit your entry today and don't forget to share the blog link (http://www.mwapeopleschoice.blogspot.com/) with your friends, insha'Allah!To learn more about Muslimah Writers Alliance visit: http://www.muslimahwritersalliance.com/ To Join Muslimah Writers Alliance visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Muslimah_Writers_AllianceVisit The Academy of American Poets at http://www.poets.org/Copyright © Muslimah Writers Alliance 2006. All Rights Reserved