Name: PoeFest Student Writing Competition
Start: 2021-4-1T00-00-01-00
End: 2021-9-13T00-00-00-00
Location: Bookmans Entertainment Exchange Mesa

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01apr(apr 1)12:01 am13sep(sep 13)12:00 amPoeFest Student Writing Competition(april 1) 12:01 am - (september 13) 12:00 am Bookmans Entertainment Exchange Mesa, 1056 S. Country Club Dr

Event Details

PoeFest is celebrating its 13th year commemorating the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and you can be a part of it all at multiple locations throughout Phoenix, Arizona this October. PoeFest has been a labor of love for a decade. When PoeFest first opened, it did so to just six audience members. With a packed audience on the third night, they knew they had something special. The fest includes mainstage productions of Poe’s short stories every weekend during the month of October with Poe’s stories rotate nightly. PoeFest usually culminates on Halloween night with ‘The Raven’ at Rosson House Museum. But there’s something extra special about PoeFest that makes Bookmans honored to be a sponsor!

Here are the updated rules for 2021:

Short Story Contest
1. All Arizona students in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades for the 2021-2022 school year are eligible.
2. Home-schooled students are eligible.
3. Student authors must be residents of the State of Arizona.
4. Submission deadline is September 13, 2021.
5. All short story submissions must be between 1,000 and 7,500 words.
6. Themes for short stories must stick to the genres of horror and/or mystery.
7. Stories must be original.
8. Authors retain all copyrights.
9. Revised previous submissions accepted.
10. Submissions can be made in electronic form (contest@poefest.org.) Word document or PDF formats only, please.
11. All submissions must include the email and phone number of a parent or guardian. All
authors must have the permission of a parent or guardian to participate.
12. All submissions must include the author’s name, birthdate, school, and grade for the 2021-
2022 school year. (Homeschooled students are welcome.)
13. One winner will be declared and notified via email and/or phone on October 1st, 2021.
Public Notification on social media pages will be posted after contact with winners.
14. All submissions will be adjudicated by a panel of judges.
15. Prize packages will be provided by Bookman’s Entertainment Exchange.
16. Winners are invited, with their parent’s permission, to record a video of them reading their
winning submission to be shared on the social media pages of Bookman’s Entertainment
Exchange, Arizona Curriculum Theater and PoeFest – A month of madness and terror.

Poetry Contest
1. All Arizona students in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades for the 2021-2022 school year are eligible.
2. Student authors must be residents of the State of Arizona.
3. Home-schooled students are eligible.
4. Submission deadline is September 13th, 2021.
5. All poetry submissions must be no more than 422 lines.
6. Themes for poems must stick to the genres of love, horror, and/or death.
5. Poems must be original.
8. Poets retain all copyrights.
9. Revised previous submissions accepted.
10. Submissions can be made in electronic form (contest@poefest.org.) Word document or PDF
file formats only, please.
11. All submissions must include the email and phone number of a parent or guardian. All
authors must have the permission of a parent or guardian to participate.
12. All submissions must include the poet’s name, birthdate, school, and grade for the 2021-
2022 school year.
13. All submissions will be adjudicated by a panel of judges.
14. One winner will be declared and notified via email on October 1st, 2021.
Public Notification on social media pages will be posted after contact with winners.
15. Prize packages will be provided by Bookman’s Entertainment Exchange.
16. Winners are invited, with their parent’s permission, to record a video of them reading their
winning submission to be shared on the social media pages of Bookman’s Entertainment
Exchange, Arizona Curriculum Theater and PoeFest – A month of madness and terror.

We can’t wait to see all of the submissions! If you have any questions, please contact MesaEvents@Bookmans.com. Happy writing everyone!

Time

April 1 (Thursday) 12:01 am - September 13 (Monday) 12:00 am

Location

Bookmans Entertainment Exchange Mesa

1056 S. Country Club Dr

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Join fellow readers for this summer read! Read at your own pace, then join the book club for a discussion meetup on June 26th. We’re reading “The Music of What Happens” by local LGBTQ+ author Bill Konigsberg. This young adult novel is set over the summer in sunny Mesa, Arizona – making it the perfect summer read!

The YA Book Club discussion meetup is the second of a three-part, month-long event! Book club discussion questions are provided by the author: Bill Konigsberg. After all, who better to help us delve into this story!

Book club participants will choose what questions to ask author Bill Konigsberg in a follow-up interview later this month!

RSVP by emailing phoenixevents@bookmans.com

All ages are welcome to our join our YA Book Club! Read “The Music of What Happens” with us, then join in on the book club meetup and discussion group later this month. Stop by any Bookmans location to pick up your copy of “The Music of What Happens.” For eBook and audiobook options, click here.

More about Bill Konigsberg:

Bill Konigsberg is the award-winning author of six young adult novels. His novel, THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS, released in 2019, has been optioned for a film. In 2018, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) established the Bill Konigsberg Award for Acts and Activism for Equity and Inclusion through Young Adult Literature. Bill lives in Phoenix with his husband, Chuck, and their Australian Labradoodles, Mabel and Buford.

About “The Music of What Happens“:

Max: Chill. Sports. Video games. Gay and not a big deal, not to him, not to his mom, not to his buddies. And a secret: An encounter with an older kid that makes it hard to breathe, one that he doesn’t want to think about, ever.

Jordan: The opposite of chill. Poetry. His “wives” and the Chandler Mall. Never been kissed and searching for Mr. Right, who probably won’t like him anyway. And a secret: A spiraling out of control mother, and the knowledge that he’s the only one who can keep the family from falling apart.

Throw in a rickety, 1980s-era food truck called Coq Au Vinny. Add in prickly pears, cloud eggs, and a murky idea of what’s considered locally sourced and organic. Place it all in Mesa, Arizona, in June, where the temp regularly hits 114. And top it off with a touch of undeniable chemistry between utter opposites.

Over the course of one summer, two boys will have to face their biggest fears and decide what they’re willing to risk — to get the thing they want the most.

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Location

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