2025 Pen & Paint I Contest
We're teaming up again with the St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre for a contest that is verbally AND visually stimulating. This will be our seventh year working in collaboration with them!
Submit your prose or poetry for an opportunity to be interpreted by a workshop of artists and a chance to be included in the 2025 SW Anthology. Judging and selection conducted anonymously.
Submit your prose or poetry for an opportunity to be interpreted by a workshop of artists and a chance to be included in the 2025 SW Anthology. Judging and selection conducted anonymously.
Theme: Anything goes *
Remember, artists are looking for a piece that visually speaks to them.
Prose: 1,000-word limit
Poetry: 50-line limit
Cost: FREE for members
Remember, artists are looking for a piece that visually speaks to them.
Prose: 1,000-word limit
Poetry: 50-line limit
Cost: FREE for members
The Cultural Arts Centre's 2025 art show theme is "Let's Take a Journey Around the World," with North America as the destination. The following excerpt from the Cultural Arts Centre's website may serve as inspiration for imaginative stories or poems that resonate with the artists: "[E]xplore the continent’s cultural heritage: the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present, and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Often though, what is considered cultural heritage by one generation may be rejected by the next generation, only to be revived by the succeeding generation."
Deadline: January 25, 2025, by midnight. Enter by filling out the form below.
Reminder: Members only. Not a member? Let’s fix that! Pay Membership Dues
Prize: Your work featured in the art display at the Arts Centre, along with the painting inspired by it and publication in our 2025 anthology.
How to Enter: All entries must be submitted via this form.
No maximum entry! Write away! The more you write, the greater your chances to be selected. Up to ten winning entries will be chosen — up to five prose and five poems. All winning entries will be in our 2025 anthology.
Reminder: Members only. Not a member? Let’s fix that! Pay Membership Dues
Prize: Your work featured in the art display at the Arts Centre, along with the painting inspired by it and publication in our 2025 anthology.
How to Enter: All entries must be submitted via this form.
No maximum entry! Write away! The more you write, the greater your chances to be selected. Up to ten winning entries will be chosen — up to five prose and five poems. All winning entries will be in our 2025 anthology.
Submit your entry online by filling out the form below.