IBD 2025: Sonnet Contest and Reading

Sat Apr 26 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-04:00

Itinerant Literate Bookstop | Charleston

Itinerant Literate Books
Publisher/HostItinerant Literate Books
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!
About this Event

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 by emailing it to [email protected] 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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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Itinerant Literate Bookstop, 4824 Chateau Avenue, Charleston, United States

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