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2021 Fox Cities Reads “Your Authentic Self” Poetry Contest
Opens: January 4, 2021 Ends: January 18, 2021
To celebrate Your Authentic Self, FCBF will host a community-wide poetry contest in the weeks ahead of the Reads announcement!
There are three categories: Adult, Teen, and Youth. The first place winner of each category will receive a $50 cash prize and will be invited to read their poetry at the virtual launch on January 26. Poems should speak to the theme, Your Authentic Self. Local poets will judge the poems in each category. We will share more about our judges in a coming blog post. Poetry entries should be submitted via Google Forms by January 18, 2021. Use this link to submit.
2021 Fox Cities Reads Poetry Workshop
January 12, 2021, 6:30 – 7:30 PM CST
The workshop will be held Tuesday, January 12, 6:30-7:30 PM and is designed to welcome first-time writers, self-declared non-writers, and poets who have been writing for years. Participants will have the opportunity to explore four different types of poetry and have the opportunity to submit one poem for feedback post-workshop. To sign up for the poetry workshop, click here. Participation is limited to 30. This event will be held via Zoom.
2021 Fox Cities Reads Title Announcement (open to the public)
2021 Author Presentations
More information to come! Join us for our 2021 title announcement!
Past Reads
2020
Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer
2019
Dr. Matthew Desmond, Evicted
2018
Ruta Sepetys, Salt To The Sea
2017
Sharon Draper, Stella By Starlight
2016
David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
2015
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
2014
R. J. Palacio, Wonder
2013
Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder and The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder
2012
Bill Strickland, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
2011
Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North and The Devil’s Highway
2010
Lesley Kagen, Whistling in the Dark
2009
Michael Perry, Off Main Street, Population: 485, and Truck
2008
Alice Hoffman, Blackbird House and Green Angel
2007
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed