Two Cody sophomores are putting their words to work. They are entering writing contests, and they’re winning.
Myshell Smith, 15, was encouraged by Karen Careathers, a teacher at Medicine and Community Health Academy at Cody, to enter the City of Detroit Angels’ Night Poster and Oratorical Contest. Smith had only one day to write and submit her entry because she didn’t find out about the contest until the day before the deadline.
Submitting her poem wasn’t the end. Smith had to recite her poem to be considered for a prize. She didn’t like that idea, but she did it because part of why she entered the contest was to show that it’s possible to follow your dreams.
“I was so nervous! At first I thought I was going to puke!” said Smith, who was even more nervous after she saw that she wasn’t dressed as formally than the rest of the students.
Her outfit didn’t matter. She took second place in the contest and won a digital camera.
Academy of Critical Thinkers at Cody student Latasha Irby has written poetry for years, but she wrote more after she started working with Sherina Sharpe from the InsideOut Literary Arts project last year in her English class.
Irby didn’t wait for a contest announcement. She searched the Internet for contests and recently found out that she won two of them. Creative Communications at www.poeticpower.com has new deadlines every few months, and Teen Ink at www.teenink.com/Contests/PoetryC.php accepts entries any time. Both contests publish the winning entries.
Irby said winning the contests boosted her confidence about her writing.
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