{"id":76561,"date":"2022-02-15T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T14:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=76561"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T20:14:00","slug":"deadline-for-sustainability-poetry-contest-extended-to-feb-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/02\/deadline-for-sustainability-poetry-contest-extended-to-feb-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline for Sustainability Poetry Contest extended to Feb. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for Brock University\u2019s eighth-annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/12\/submissions-open-for-eighth-annual-sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainability Poetry Contest<\/a> has been extended to Sunday, Feb. 20 at 11:59 p.m., providing Niagara region poets with extra time to submit their entries.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the 2022 contest, hosted by Brock\u2019s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair, is \u201cBeyond Sustainability,\u201d which relates to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/beyond-sustainability-radical-transformation-through-system-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock-led transdisciplinary research project of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team of researchers is investigating new ways of thinking about how humans interact with non-humans and the natural environment to ensure a more socially equitable and environmentally viable world.<\/p>\n<p>All Niagara residents are eligible to enter their original, unpublished poems for this year\u2019s contest, which includes categories for elementary, high school and post-secondary students, as well as the general public. Poems will be accepted in English and French, and up to two poems can be submitted per person.<\/p>\n<p>Poems can be submitted online until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20 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. The winners will be publicly announced. All poems are also published in an e-book compilation.<\/p>\n<p>All poets will be celebrated at a Poetry Day Celebration on Monday, March 21. More details about the event, including the location and program, will be available closer to the date and can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainability Poetry Contest web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to request assistance with your submission, please contact Sarah Ackles at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sackles@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sackles@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for Brock University\u2019s eighth-annual\u00a0Sustainability Poetry Contest\u00a0has been extended to Sunday, Feb. 20 at 11:59 p.m., providing Niagara region poets with extra time to submit their entries this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794,41],"tags":[7247,384,9801,44,7248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76561"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76566,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76561\/revisions\/76566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}