Official announced details on the 2022 Festival of Words Youth Writing Competition.
The competition is open to all Acadiana area students, grades 3-12. This year, the competition features four submission categories: poetry, fiction, multimedia (new), and advertisement (new). Students can submit one entry per category through a supervising teacher.
Submissions are due Monday, October 17, 2022 by 11:55 p.m.
Writings will be submitted electronically to nwpacadiana@gmail.com by teacher facilitators and will require parental permission.
Winners will be announced the following week and will receive a medal and anthology ,given to them at the festival or sent to the facilitator/teacher's school to give to the student and they'll be invited to read their winning piece on Saturday, November 5 at the Festival of Words.
For more information contact Dr. H. Michelle Kreamer, Writing Competition Coordinator for Festival of Words Student Creative Writing Contest at hmkreamer@lousiana.edu.
