Juke Joint Writing Contest

The Juke Joint Writing Contest is open to all students from 4th grade to college students. The prize is $100 to be given to the winner's teacher or classroom. There will also be an awards ceremony the week after Juke Joint Festival at the art/writing building in downtown Clarksdale.

The contest's theme is "keeping the blues alive". We encourage everyone to use the Carnegie Public Library for their resources.

Submissions may be an essay, personal narrative, poem or song lyric. Poems must be from 12 lines to one page and song lyrics must be a minimum of three verses and a chorus.

The number of words for each grade is outlined below:

Fourth grade - Sixth grade : 200-250 words
Grades 7-9 350-500 words
Grades 10-12 500-750 words
College students 750-1250 words

Please send submissions to

PO Box 0475
Sumner, MS 38957

For more information, Call the Delta Writers Association at 1 800 381 2306.
For pick ups, please call the above number.

Lets bring creativity to Clarksdale through our students. All winning submissions will be displayed at the art/writing building in Downtown Clarksdale (Delta Ave) during the Juke Joint Festival on April 18th from 9-4.

Deadline for submissions is April 8th. All submissions are property of Juke Joint Festival.

Sponsors of the Juke Joint Writing Contest
include:
Friends of the Library - Clarksdale's Carnegie Public Library
Jim and Jane Wilbourn
SonEdna Foundation
KOK Publications
Rock River Foundation