Love What's Real Writing Contest
Idaho middle and junior high school students are eligible to enter the Love What’s Real writing Contest for National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month. Writing must be 75 words or less (title does not count). The prompt is “What do healthy teen relationships feel like, sound like or look like?” Deadline for submission has been extended to
midnight Monday, December 12th.

Writing tips from Idaho’s nationally recognized award winning authors – Anthony Doerr, Alan Heathcock, and others – and Idaho’s outstanding poetry teachers will be posted weekly on the
Love What’s Real Facebook page beginning October 15th.

Awards
$500 First Place Winner $250 Second Place Winner $100 Third Place Winner $25 for each of the
additional 100 or more writings selected for publication
All published works will list the author, grade and school. A book of the published works will be
distributed to Idaho’s middle and junior high schools. Make sure your school is represented!

Submit your writing to: startstrongidaho2010@gmail.com

Click here to read last year's winning entries.

Click here to download a copy of the teachers guide.

For any other questions, contact the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence at 1.888.293.6118.

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Start Strong Idaho Parent's Handbook is available online
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Support for this web site was provided by a grant from Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.