ApocaPoetry Contest

From the Writers' Center of Indiana:

ApocaPoetry Contest Announced 
Welcome to the Year of the Apocalypse. On 12/21/2012, Something Significant will happen - if we believe the foretellers, some kind of Apocalypse. Depending on your preferred soothsayer, the Something Significant will be nuclear war or the arrival of aliens or The Rapture. But there's also the reality that the Mother-of-All-Disasters we're approaching is already happening: the wholesale wrecking of our habitat through mindless consumerism, toxic pollution and greenhouse gasses growing out of control.  So, rather than get all doomy and gloomy about it, we're having a poetry contest - or, rather, an apocapoetry contest.

In honor of the Year of the Apocalypse, Indiana Living Green, along with the Writers' Center of Indiana is announcing a poetry contest. Not just any poetry contest, but a contest with a theme: the Apocalypse. Here's the deal. You must write your poem in the style of James Whitcomb Riley. That's right, the Hoosier Poet himself. Write in the dialect, keep to the form and rhyme about the Apocalypse, with an Indiana angle.

Send your submissions (limit two) to apocapoetrycontest@indianalivinggreen.com.
The winner gets $250. We will print any we think are decent or hilarious. Deadline: Oct. 1, 2012; we'll announce - and print - the winner (and many of the non-winners) in December, of course, just in time for The Endtimes.