Beverly Teens Invited To Submit Poetry For Annual Contest

BEVERLY, MA — Beverly teens are invited to enter their best prose in this year's Annual Teen Poetry Contest beginning next week.

The Beverly Public Library's annual contest is open to all students in grades 6 through 12 who live or attend school in Beverly. Cash prizes will be awarded in two age categories — grades 6 through 9 and grades 10 through 12 — with winning entries published in a booklet that will be distributed to students and families and kept in the library's permanent collection.

Each student may submit up to three entries, with each poem requiring a title, being original work, and being submitted online here.

The library will begin accepting entries on Jan. 3 through March 3. Finalists will be invited to read their poems at the Reading and Awards Ceremony where the winners will be announced on April 26.

The contest is made possible by the Friends of the Beverly Public Library.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza