Sponsored by St.

Anne’s-Belfield School, Village School, and Media Sponsor WVPT Virginia’s Public Television:

2010 Virginia Festival of the Book 
Poetry& Prose
CONTEST
A CELEBRATION OF WRITING BY HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE
SCHOOL STUDENTS
PURPOSE:
Student authors in grades 5-12 are invited to create original
poetry or prose for submission to the Virginia Festival of the
Book’s “Celebration of Student Writing.” The 16th Annual
Virginia Festival of the Book is in Charlottesville from March
17-21, 2010. More information on the Festival, including
school and youth programs, can be found at www.vabook.org.

GUIDELINES:
Submissions must include (1) the writer’s name, (2) the
Submissions are name of the school or home school, (3) the teacher’s
due to the VFH name or parent’s name, and (4) the school or home
by 5:00 p.m., phone number on the BACK of the written piece
February 12, Pieces must be poetry or prose. Prose may not exceed
1,000 words. Poetry may not exceed two single-spaced
2010! pages.
Typed submissions are preferred, but not required.

SUBMISSIONS: RECOGNITION!
One entry per person
Send to: If a student’s piece is selected, the
RECOGNITION!

Virginia Festival of the Book student’s work will be printed in a

Attn: Poetry and Prose
booklet, and the student will be
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 invited to read the piece aloud in a
special Festival event on March
16, 2010 at the Charlottesville
Omni Hotel. A reception follows.

Questions? Contact Nancy Damon at vabook@virginia.edu or 434-924-7548

Virginia Festival of the Book

145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
The Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the Virginia Foundation Center for the Book
www.virginiafoundation.org/bookcenter