Poets for Human Rights is proud to sponsor two poetry contests - the 

Anita McAndrews Award poetry contest and the Alexander Popoff Youth 

Award poetry contest. 


Guidelines for the Anita McAndrews Award poetry contest: 


Anita McAndrews (1924-2005) was a poet, writer, award-winning 

investigative journalist and prolific artist. She lived in Panama 

City, Panama for thirty-five years, where she taught English as a 

second language to inner-city children, hosted her own weekly radio 

program, served on the board of the National Museum and was a 

founding member of Panama's Art Museum.  Her last fifteen years were 

spent in Clearwater, FL, where she advocated for human rights and 

tutored at the Community Learning Center.  


The contest is open to anyone.  $100 first prize. The winning poem 

will be read at the International Human Rights Day event in 

Clearwater, Florida, on Sunday, December 10, 2006.

Contest judge will be Cindy Childress. Cindy Childress served as 

Poet-in-Residence at the Pinellas County Girls Correctional Facility 

2002-3. She was awarded the Marcella Siegel Memorial Award in 2005 

and the first place Christina Sergeyevna Award in 2006 for her 

poetry. Her work has been published in such places as The Red Booth 

Review, Southern Hum, The Southwestern Review, The Canadian Women's 

Studies Journal, and many anthologies. Currently she is working on a 

manuscript of poetry for a creative dissertation toward her Ph. D. 

in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  


Submission guidelines:


1. Poems must relate to human rights.  Familiarity with the 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights is recommended.  For a copy of 

the UDHR, visit http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html.


2.  Submissions may be in any form, any length up to three letter-

sized pages.


3.  Previously published poems are accepted, if rights have reverted 

back to the author.  

 

4. $1 reading fee per poem, in US Dollars. 


5.  Each poem must be typed on a separate sheet of paper, 10 or 12 

point font.


6.  Submissions must be accompanied by a cover sheet that includes 

author's name, address, telephone number, email address, poem 

titles, and permission to publish. 


7.  Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2006. 


Mail submissions to:

Stazja McFadyen

100 Waverly Way, #310

Clearwater, FL 33756


Guidelines for the Alexander Popoff Youth Award poetry contest. Alex 

Popoff  (1978-2002) was a young man who experienced life with 

positivity and optimism. The Popoff family has kept human rights and 

unity as core values for generations. Although Alex's life was cut 

short by complications due to cystic fibrosis, his impact on people 

reached beyond his immediate sphere of influence. Heartbroken by the 

capacity of humans to harm one another, he signed the 9/11 Memorial 

in New York City, just months before he departed.  The Alexander 

Popoff Youth Award poetry contest was established by his sister, 

Georgia Popoff, community poet and human rights advocate based in 

Syracuse, New York. Georgia will be the final judge for the contest. 


$100 (US Dollars) first prize. Submissions are open to youth aged 

seventeen and younger.  There is no reading fee. Poems must relate 

to human rights.  Familiarity with the Universal Declaration of 

Human Rights is recommended.  To view and download an abridged copy 

of the UDHR, visit

http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/un_declaration_text/un-

declaration.htm


Submissions may be sent in the body of an email, along with name, 

age, address, email address, and a brief bio.  Send submissions to 

[log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]  Write "Alexander Popoff 

Youth Award submission" in the subject line.  Deadline is November 

15, 2006.