Protons and Poetry (Contest Announcement)

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Protons and Poetry
Poets Against Indian Point

Calling all poets and creative souls. The Green Nuclear Butterfly, in a joint collaborative effort with Rock The Reactors, and Vara Art are now accepting poetry submissions for our "Protons and Poetry, Poets Against Indian Point" poetry contest. This exciting contest hopes to raise citizen awareness through the creative use of word play as we mount our campaign to close the aging and dangerous Entergy reactors known collectively as Indian Point.

Two chances to win:

1. Protons and Poetry Reading In New York (SoHo). One poet will walk away with a grand prize of $1,000.

A) Submissions can be emailed to roycepenstinger@aol.com or mailed via first class mail to Sherwood Martinelli, Green Nuclear Butterfly, 351 Dyckman Street, Peekskill, New York 10566.

B) Three judges will narrow these submissions down to 20 finalists.

C) The Green Nuclear Butterfly will announce the finalists, and the details (time, date and place) for public presentation of these works in Manhattan. Writers must be able to attend this event, and read their submission to be eligible for the grand prize.

D) Three judges will select one finalist as our Grand Prize winner.

2. The Green Nuclear Butterfly Blog has readers from 11 nations, and realizes that many creative souls would love to submit poetry, but would be unable to attend our public presentation of the 20 finalists, and so are ineligible for the above contest. We are therefore sponsoring a smaller online contest (unless we can find more prize money) for those unable to participate in the above contest. One online winner will be awarded a Grand Prize of $200.

A) Submissions can be emailed to roycepenstinger@aol.com or mailed via first class mail to Sherwood Martinelli, Green Nuclear Butterfly, 351 Dyckman Street, Peekskill, New York 10566.

B) Up to 25 finalists will be chosen from those entering contest number two.

C) The Green Nuclear Butterfly will announce the finalist for contest number two. Finalists will be asked to put their poem up on YouTube, and email the link and HTML coding. All YouTube video poems will be made available for our Green Nuclear Butterfly readers.

D. The Green Nuclear Butterfly will choose one finalist as our Online Grand Prize Winner of $200.00

All judges decisions are final.

Green Nuclear Butterfly reserves the right to increase prize amounts, or number of winners as finances allow.

Cost of entry is free, but submission of a poem gives the Green Nuclear Butterfly, and Rock The Reactors full shared unrestricted use of the work with the poets, including right to publication, and/or reuse without financial costs. All proceeds used to further the efforts of our two organizations.