Enter the "Reverse Poetry Contest" for Social Work Month 2018

Reverse Poetry Contest - Social Work Month 2018

We are no longer accepting entries for the Reverse Poetry Contest. Thank you to all who submitted poems!

Submission Deadline: January 16, 2018

Submit to: lindagrobman@socialworker.com

Win cash prizes and publication!  

     The New Social Worker® magazine, in collaboration with Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work, is having a poetry contest! We are seeking submissions from social work practitioners and students for Social Work Month 2018. The contest is being co-coordinated by Linda May Grobman, MSW, ACSW, LSW, and Brian L. Kelly, PhD, MSW, CADC.

     Submissions are to be in the form of a reverse poem. This is a poem that has one meaning when read from top to bottom and another meaning when read from bottom to top. See an example at:

     We chose this form of poetry for the contest, because it requires creativity and critical thinking, and it lends itself to themes of social justice.  Use your imagination!

Guidelines:

  • Entrants must be students or graduates of Council on Social Work Education-accredited social work programs.
  • Each entrant may submit one poem to the contest.
  • All submissions must be in the form of a reverse poem, submitted in a Word file.
  • Submissions may also include a video or audio performance of the poem, submitted as a YouTube or SoundCloud link.
  • Submissions should focus on an aspect of social justice (for example, social and economic justice, racial and ethnic justice, human rights). Please do not limit yourself to these examples.
  • There will be two categories: (1) social work students, and (2) social work practitioners (graduates of social work programs).
  • There will be three (3) prizes in each category, for a total of six (6) prizes.
  • Winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each of two categories) will receive cash prizes: $300/1st place, $150/2nd place, $50/3rd place.
  • Winning submissions will be published on The New Social Worker website (www.socialworker.com) during March 2018 and may also appear on our various social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and in our publications.
  • Non-winning submissions may be published on The New Social Worker website (www.socialworker.com) and may also appear on our various social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and in our publications, at the publisher’s discretion.
  • By submitting to the contest, you are granting permission for your poem to be published in written, video, and/or audio formats on The New Social Worker website (www.socialworker.com) and on its various social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and in The New Social Worker publications.
  • Submit to lindagrobman@socialworker.com with the title of your submission in the email subject line.  In the Word file, please include:  Title of poem, your name, credentials (student or social work degree), job title (if applicable), affiliation (school, agency), text of the poem, link to YouTube or SoundCloud version of poem (if applicable), 1-sentence bio.
  • Submit no later than January 16, 2018.

     Thank you!

Linda Grobman, MSW, LSW, ACSW, Publisher/Editor, The New Social Worker, lindagrobman@socialworker.com

Brian L. Kelly, PhD, MSW, CADC, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago, School of Social Work, bkelly6@luc.edu