PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten – Beyond Kultura Events Foundation is calling up all children and adults of Saba, Statia, Sint Maarten and Anguilla to participate in its writing competition on your experiences with the
COVID-19. How are you and your family coping with the condition? Is your world upside down because of the lock down? What do you like and what do you dislike? As a whole, what are your feelings about the situation and what are your expectations an wishes? Which opportunities do you see? Deadline for submission of your poem is f 15 of May coming. 1 entree per person is allowed.
For this competition, BKE will publish the 8 best winning poems/letters in the newspapers of SXM. Winners can come along to radio programs to read their winning poems and children will be put into the spotlight in their schools.
If a book will be published, BKE will include a letter or poems of the 8 winners in a book about COVID-19.
The winning writers will, in that case also receive 3 copies of the book.
A judge penal will judge the works in May. The 5 winners will be announced in each category letters and Poems via the newspapers and via their personal email account.
The poems or letters of max 1 A4 can be sent until 15th of May coming at beyondkultura@gmail.com mentioning writer’s name, age, title of the poem or letter, email address, telephone number and if it applies, your school.
For further information, you can call the president of Beyond Kultura Events Foundation, Mrs. Morales at 5271223.
