IBD 2025: Sonnet Contest and Reading
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IBD 2025: Sonnet Contest and Reading

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

By Itinerant Literate Books

Date and time

Saturday, April 26 · 3 - 4pm EDT

Location

Itinerant Literate Bookstop

4824 Chateau Avenue #N Charleston, SC 29405

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

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:

  • Write an original Shakespearean-style sonnet (14 lines, iambic pentameter encouraged but not required—bonus points for wit, drama, and bookish themes!)
  • Submit your sonnet via Google Form by April 18
  • All ages welcome to participate!

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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Itinerant Literate Books

Itinerant Literate Books is an independent bookstore in the Park Circle neighborhood of North Charleston, South Carolina.

We're obsessed with bringing novel experiences, exciting reads, and fantastic service to all. Visit us for a curated variety of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, young adult books, graphic novels, comic books, cookbooks, and gift items, plus regular book signings, story time, open mic night, and more!