2021 International Poetry & Storytelling Festival!

High School students invited to submit original poems and short stories in celebration of the values of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

SALUTING THE VOICES OF CONSCIENCE

Congratulations to student winners in 2021 International Poetry & Storytelling Competition for High School Students

2021 WINNERS INCLUDE:

FIRST PLACE:
Black‌ ‌Lives‌ ‌Matter‌, ‌Too‌
Patin Drayton Brown
 Bishop McDevitt

SECOND PLACE:
“In Absentia Lucis, Tenebrae Vincunt”
Connor Joyce
Harrisburg Academy

THIRD PLACE 
Just Do 
 Lan Feeney
Harrisburg Academy

Voices of Conscience — Featured artists included:

Rev. Nathaniel Gadsden

Maria James Thiaw 

Lynn Blackston

Rick Kearns, Poet Laureate of the City of Harrisburg

Jesse Waters, Elizabethtown College’s Bower Writer’s House

Ann Van Dyke, Community Responders Network