BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Literary Festival will host a teen poetry, prose, and pizza slam at the Boys and Girls Club on Flat Street on Saturday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m..
Writers 18 and under are encouraged to sign up to read their original poems or prose. The winner will receive a cash prize of $100 and will be published online at Green Mountains Review. The runner-up will receive a $50 cash prize.
Door prizes and a raffle will feature gift certificates from Duo Restaurant, J.D McCliments Pub, Vermont Country Store, Buzzy's Pizza, Amy's Bakery, Brown and Roberts, Baskin Family Farms, Sam's Outdoor Outfitters, and more. Pizza from Ramunto's Brick Oven Pizza will be served during the intermission.
To participate, sign up by emailing Sophie Guerrina at sophie.guerrina@compass-school.org by April 20. This is a free event, but donations of any amount are welcome.
Winners will be chosen by a panel of three judges: local authors Tim Weed and Heather Wells Peterson, and Chard deNiord, Poet Laureate of Vermont.