The Annual Times Competition for Santa Cruz County Residents
By Noel Smith
Times Publishing Group is sponsoring its 18th Annual Times Publishing Valentine’s Day Poetry Contest to reward four local poets (and their loved ones) throughout Santa Cruz County and to encourage them to make public their feelings in celebration of Valentines Day.
Express your love — in 250 words or less — (see “Contest Rules” for complete details) and tell the world what makes your Valentine special!
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2018 Poetry Contest Rules
(Open only to Santa Cruz County residents!)
Please Read Carefully
Be sure to include your name, address, day and evening phone numbers, e-mail address, and for whom (fiancée, spouse, parent, child, lost love, etc.) your poem is written.
The 2018 prizes will be: A Grand Prize for the best poem about his/her successful 30-plus year marriage and Three First Place winning poems.
We welcome all submissions from the residents of Santa Cruz County. The Times Publishing editorial staff will select the winners as follows:
- South county for the Aptos Times — Watsonville, Freedom, Corralitos
- Mid-county for the Capitola Soquel Times — Capitola, Soquel, Santa Cruz and Davenport
- Santa Cruz Mountains for the Scotts Valley Times — Scotts Valley, San Lorenzo Valley, Bonny Doon, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek
2017 Winners: Grand Prize: Celebrating Over 30 Years of Marriage – Roy Verley of Aptos • First Prize Aptos Times – Robert Kincheloe of Aptos • First Prize Capitola Soquel Times – Paula Hill of Santa Cruz • First Prize Scotts Valley Times – Mary Marasco of Scotts Valley.