Poetry Contest

2024 Call For Poems
LFCAC Seeks Local Poetry

The Arts Center is excited to announce our upcoming poetry contest, and we're calling on all local poets to submit their best work! This is a great opportunity to showcase your talent and possibly win one of our cash prizes. The winner in the adult category will receive $300, while the teen winner will receive $100 and the child winner will receive $50. Winning poems will be published in the Coastal View News. We're looking for original, unpublished poems, so get creative and submit your best work, not to exceed 100 lines. Don't miss out on this chance to share your poetry with our community!

Poems are blind judged (no names) by previous poetry contest winners, staff of LFCAC will not judge poems.

Each poet may submit up to 3 poems. Deadline to submit: March 31st.

Poetry Reception: April 14, 2:00pm in the Koch Courtyard, 865 Linden Ave. Winners will receive awards and read poems.

Teachers: For classroom visits to schools by local writers to teach poetry in your classroom, please contact lana@carpinteriaartscenter.org

 
 

2024 Poetry Submission Forms

 

Ages 5 - 12Ages 13 - 17Ages 18+ 

 

2023 Poetry Award Winners

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Adult Category Winner - Tie

Hal Price

Winning Poem

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Adult Category Winner - Tie

Zachary Murphy King

Winning Poem

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Teen Category Winner

Chloe Avila Martin

Winning Poem

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Child Category Winner

Galileo Berenstein

Winning Poem

 

2023 Honorable Mentions

 

 

2021 Poetry Award Winners

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Adult Category Winner

Christina Gessler

What Falls Away

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Teen Category Winner

Noah Manzarek-Naghi

Leper Tree

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Child Category Winner

Orly Espinoza

Poppies

 

2021 Honorable Mentions

 

2020 Poetry Award Winners

 

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Adult Category Winner

Anna Fortner

All Things

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Teen Category Winner

Phoenix Seal

WHERE I AM FROM

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Child Category Winner

Ellie Elizabeth Roberts

Gratitude

2020 Honorable Mentions

2019 Poetry Award Winners

 

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Adult Category Winner

M.L. Brown

California Fordhook Lima Bean

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Teen Category Winner

Ruby McCullers

Stomach Aches

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Child Category Winner

Lilliana Grace Nemetz

My Book is a World

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