Chesapeake Style, in partnership with several area high schools, regularly supports the creative efforts of local young people by publishing Teen Style pages in each issue. The Teen Style pages, supported by local businesses who advertise in our magazine, highlight creative writing, art, photography and poetry submitted by students in grades nine through twelve.

Chesapeake Style is proud of our past efforts to showcase visual and literary achievements of area teens and to partner with business and community organizations to support our young people. In our continuing effort to build a creative community for teens in the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck counties, we are launching a new project that we hope will provide encouragement to our young artists and writers in their creative journeys.

In partnership with local businesses, Chesapeake Style announces its first Visual Art and Writing Awards competition. This annual contest is open to any student in grades nine through twelve who lives in the counties of Mathews, Middlesex, Gloucester, King William, King and Queen, Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland, Northumberland and Lancaster.

Cash awards, donated by local businesses and community organizations, will be made for first and second place winners, and the winning entries will be published in future issues of Chesapeake Style. The first place visual art submission will also be featured on a future cover. All submissions will be judged by panels of art and literary specialists and local community leaders.

The contest categories are Art, Photography, Poetry, Fiction, and Non-fiction, and the deadline for submissions is May 30, 2010. All entries will be submitted directly to Chesapeake Style and must be accompanied by a form completed by a parent or guardian giving Chesapeake Style permission to publish the entry, if selected.

    Additional competition details and entry information can be downloaded by clicking Here

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