Plans for the Frank X Walker Literary Festival VIII are underway, with expansion to include a K-12 poetry contest in its events. The festival will take place in October, exact dates and times will be announced. The idea of including a competition was initiated by the Friends of the Arts Committee, part of the Danville […]
Calling all cowboys and cowgirls, or aspiring cowboy poets! The 2021 Kansas Cowboy Poetry Contest is taking place online, and poets are invited to enter the contest and post videos of themselves showcasing their self-written cowboy poems. Competitors from any state are welcome. Original western-themed poems can be entered into the humorous or serious category. […]
Seven young poets from the Edgecomb Center for Teaching and Learning entered the 2021 Sarah Mook Poetry Competition. The competition received more than 1,000 entries from twenty states and ten countries, and seven of the seventeen winners were from CTL! In the K-2 category, Boothbay’s Avery Peck placed third for her poem “Springtime.” In the […]
Registration Open for MCPS Virtual Academy Registration for the Montgomery County Public Schools Virtual Academy opened Wednesday and is available through July 2. The virtual academy, called “Montgomery Virtual,” will begin in the fall and continue through the academic year, allowing students who have ongoing health issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to […]