Check out the past winners!

Here's how:
Enter the Kelly Karate Prize for Poetry contest

First Place: Publication in a Kelly Karate Book

Contest deadline: Entries must be postmarked by May 15,2006.

• No entry fee.



• May enter up to two poems.



• Name, address, email address, phone and age must appear on each page.



• Poems must be neatly printed or typed double spaced.



• Poems will be based on literary quality and must be in line with the Kelly Karate theme of courage, faith, and inner strength. We encourage entrants to browse our website and to read the Kelly karate books to gain a sense of the style of poems we seek.



• Preferred maximum lines are 24. Minimum is 10.



• Poems that have been previously published or have received monetary awards are not eligible. We do not accept simultaneous submissions for this contest.



• Manuscripts will not be returned.



• The winner will be notified August 1,2006 and will be posted on the website.



• While we would like to acknowledge receipt of manuscripts, we are unable to, due to the amount of submissions.



• Applicants must be between ages of 7 and 20.
  
  


• Submit poetry to:

Kelly Karate Contest
8988-L.S. Sheridan
# 233
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133

or email to Contest

Here is a poem by the first winner, this appears in Kelly Karate Discovers the Ice Princess.

                                     
Courage
 by Johnny Rico Woolley

The blinding sun peaks through the horizon
to warm the world below.
      She is not afraid of the darkness that precedes her,
For she has courage,
The truth of light that burns away the murk.

For courage is not the small one
doing the giant deed.
It is the simple act of kindness....
The child's laugh.....
The hand that raises in the classroom....
And  the sun...
Shining on our faces.

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Johnny Rico Woolley was 17 when he wrote this poem. He attended Durango High School in Colorado when he won the 2002/2003 Kelly Karate Poetry Contest. He now lives in Oklahoma.