The Annual Times Competition for Santa Cruz County Residents
Times Publishing Group is sponsoring its 19th 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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2019 Poetry Contest Rules
(Open only to Santa Cruz County residents!)
Please Read Carefully
Write a poem about, or to your Valentine. There is NO credit for formatting. Submit it via email to info@cyber-times.com with Poetry Contest as the Subject, or mail it to 9601 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003. Only one poem per poet and no more than 250 words and 25 lines.
The 2019 prizes will be announced soon.
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
Entries must be received by 5 p.m. Friday, February 8, 2019. The winner will be notified on or before Friday, February 9. Please Email or call us at 831/688-7549 if you have any questions. The winning poems will be published in the March 1 editions of our three newspapers.
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2018 Winners: Grand Prize: Tom Trujillo of La Selva Beach for the Aptos Times. • Travis Deyoung of Santa Cruz for the Capitola Soquel Times • Donna Kannall of Scotts Valley for the Scotts Valley Times