{"id":64182,"date":"2020-02-24T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=64182"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:20:44","slug":"sustainability-poetry-contest-submission-deadline-extended-to-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/sustainability-poetry-contest-submission-deadline-extended-to-march-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Poetry Contest submission deadline extended to March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The submission deadline for Brock University\u2019s annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/brock-unesco-chair-calls-for-sustainability-poetry-contest-submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainability Poetry Contest<\/a> has been extended to Saturday, March 1 at 5 p.m., providing budding poets with an extra week to submit their entries.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s contest, hosted by Brock\u2019s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair, is International Year of Plant Health. The theme highlights the important role that plants play in sustaining all the life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0contest,\u00a0which is under the patronage of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO,\u00a0includes categories for elementary, high school and post-secondary students, as well as the general public. It is open to everyone who resides or studies in the Niagara region. Participants may enter up to two poems, and will be accepted in either English or French.<\/p>\n<p>Submissions are accepted via online form submission by visiting the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNESCO Chair\u2019s website<\/a>. Prizes, such as books and gift cards, will be awarded in each of the four categories and the winners will be announced at the Chair\u2019s World Poetry Day celebration on Monday, March 23 at the Niagara Artists\u2019 Centre\u00a0in downtown St. Catharines. The event is free, but registration on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chair\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0is required as space is limited.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to request assistance with your submission, please contact Sarah Ackles at <a href=\"mailto:sackles@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sackles@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The submission deadline for Brock University\u2019s annual\u00a0Sustainability Poetry Contest has been extended to Saturday, March 1 at 5 p.m., providing budding poets with an extra week to submit their entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[7247,3231,1154,44,7248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64183,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64182\/revisions\/64183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}