IBD 2025: Sonnet Contest and Reading

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Calling all Bards! Submit your best Sonnet for our Sonnet Contest and Reading for Independent Bookstore Day!

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Do thine thoughts turn to verse? Canst thou woo with words or duel with a quill? Then lend us thy finest fourteen lines and enter our Shakespearean Sonnet Contest, part of this year's Much Ado About Reading celebration!At 3:00 p.m., join us for a lively dramatic reading of sonnet submissions—performed with appropriate pomp, flair, and flourish. We'll crown two winners: 👑 Critic’s Choice – selected by our esteemed panel 🎭 Crowd Favorite – chosen by our audience of groundlings✨All sonnets will be featured in a limited-edition Much Ado About Reading Zine, free while supplies last!How to Enter:<ul><li>Write an original Shakespearean-style sonnet (14 lines, iambic pentameter encouraged but not required—bonus points for wit, drama, and bookish themes!)</li><li>Submit your sonnet via <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclx2_NYKm2RIlk6p3kEiXQikj7Xklb8WBaZWjb1cMRBgC0jg/viewform?usp=dialog" title="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclx2_NYKm2RIlk6p3kEiXQikj7Xklb8WBaZWjb1cMRBgC0jg/viewform?usp=dialog" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google Form </a> by April 18</li><li>All ages welcome to participate!</li></ul>Whether you’re a hopeless romantic, a pun-loving rogue, or a melancholy poet brooding by candlelight, this contest is for you.✍️ Prizes, applause, and eternal literary glory await.

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