We're excited to announce our 4th Annual Poetry Contest, hosted in collaboration with the Camden Poets Society, the Arts Center of Kershaw County, Chronicle-Independent, and the Kershaw County School District. Alongside our traditional Best in Show and Poets Choice awards, we're excited to introduce a new Themed Category this year. Poems written around this specific theme will qualify for this distinctive award.

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The Special Topic this year is Women's Empowerment and poems on this topic should reflect the experience of a woman in the student's life (a caregiver, mother, role model) that the student finds strong, resilient, and inspirational.

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Each student may submit up to three poems for consideration. Poems must be submitted in clear, understandable English, without offensive material or foul language. Poems may be no more than 30 lines of text. Formatting of poems make be in any style (Haiku, Limerick, Sonnets, or Free Verse) should express the student's thoughts, emotions and impressions about the human scene or experience. Poems may be published at a later date.

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