OLD FORGE LIBRARY
POETRY AND ILLUSTRATION
CONTEST
In celebration of National Library Week, the Old Forge Library is sponsoring a Poetry and Illustration Contest for students K-12, college students, and adults from throughout the Mid-York Library region (Herkimer, Madison & Oneida counties) and the Town of Inlet. The theme of this year’s contest is “Adirondack Dreams and Visions.”
•Entries in the Poetry Contest will be judged by Carol Hoenig and Naomi Guttman.•Entries in the Illustration Contest will be judged by Nancie Battaglia and Suzanne Firsching.Prizes will be awarded and the winners announced to the public at a reception at the library on Tuesday, March 24 at 7 pm. Participants whose poems and illustrations win or receive honorable mention in their categories will have an opportunity to read or discuss their work at the reception. An exhibit of poems and illustrations will be on display through April and May, 2009. (see more Information>)
Entries were accepted between February 3 and February 28. Call the Old Forge Library with any questions at 315-369-6008 or email: iworthen@midyork.org
This project is made possible with funds from the Art Creating Community Decentralization
Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Stanley Center for the Arts and also the Friends of the Old Forge Library.
