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Submit your Poetry to the Festival. Three Options: 1) To post. 2) To have performed by an actor 3) To be made into a film.

Deadline Today: Short Story Contest

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writing CONTESTSHORT STORY CONTEST
Get full feedback! Winners get their short story made into a video!

SUBMIT your Short Story HERE

FULL FEEDBACK on your SHORT STORY from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. SUBMIT your story now (between 1,000 and 9,000 words)
SUBMIT your STORY today! To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events.

Get your full story read by a professional actor and showcased online for the world to see!

Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation

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A great way to get your words out there, obtain the Agent you’re looking for or just get your story seen by more people. If you win, your story will be seen…

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Deadline Today: VIDEO PITCH FESTIVAL

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ACTORVIDEO PITCH FESTIVAL

Submit your own video pitch today.

Submit your VIDEO PITCH LOGLINE here

Submit your LOGLINE/PITCH to this network and we’ll make it into a film.

A great way to increase your presence and get your story out to the world. This network averages over 95,000 unique visitors a day. We guarantee that your video will garner 1000s of hits by being showcased on this website network, plus the YouTube channel. (Watch the video series on the right for example)

There are many ways we can present your story when we use our professional actors to showcase your video. For Example:

1) We can have them perform to the camera.

2) We can have them pitch your story in voice over with just the text

3) Or, we can have them pitch your story in voice over in a combination of text and photos to enhance your video.

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Farewells of Mt Auburn – Poetry Reading by Mark Curtis Dunn

Poetry performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the winning poet:

POETRY 7 questions:

What is the theme of your poem?

The main theme of “Farewells of Mt. Auburn” is honoring the lives of the departed. A major subtheme is eternal life.

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

When people read the poem or watch the reading, I would like them to be transported with visual, emotional, and tactile experience.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been writing poetry for about fifty years.

Do you have a favorite poet?

If I have to choose a favorite – there are many – at this time in my life I would choose Robert Frost.

What influenced you to submit to the Poetry Festival and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I have submitted other material to Wildsound (at least one screenplay) and I had noticed that you had a poetry section as well. So I decided to share this poem.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I have written several screenplays across genres. Some short stories. I have recently completed a one-act stage play which I submitted to a local theater for reading.

What is your passion in life?

I have a passion for many things in life which include: asserting individual freedom against tyranny, savoring artistic free expression in aesthetic terms, and a desire to resonate a literary work with an audience, with the highest preference aimed at creating a work that contributes an archetype that finds its way into everyday life. Commercial rewards help, but I realize I might not see that in my lifetime. That’s another story.

Ground Zero – Poetry Reading by Melissa R Mendelson

Poetry performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the winning poet:

POETRY 7 questions:

What is the theme of your poem?

The theme is to not forget because as more time passes, we do forget, sometimes even the worst moments of our life.

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

To remember. We need to remember especially in the world that we are living in.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve been writing poetry since high school. I even won a Reflections Award for one of my poems, which might have actually been in the eighth grade. I recently found this certificate buried among other items in the basement.

Do you have a favorite poet?

My favorite author is Stephen King, but as for a poet, I have found a multitude of talent on a website called, HitRecord. The poets there among the many other dozens of artists are amazing and brilliant.

What influenced you to submit to the Poetry Festival and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I have written many, many poems over the years. The older ones… Well, some shouldn’t see daylight, but I have seen how my poetry has progressed over the years. And the ones that I have written such as “Ground Zero” have their own voice, which needs to be heard.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Yes. I have actually just finished writing my fist novel, Lizardian, and I’ve had a lot of short stories published in the past. Some can still be found on Gadfly Online and others on HitRecord.

What is your passion in life?

Writing.

Lessons On Throwing Shade – Poetry Reading by Nigel Toussaint Bray

Poetry performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the winning poet:

POETRY 7 questions:

What is the theme of your poem?

The theme is life, humanity, and common respect for one another. If I have to choose one it would be the latter…respect.

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I would like for people to laugh and ponder what I am saying. Read between the lines while being humored.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I’ve been writing poetry since high school but never really thought of myself as a poet. Both my father and my maternal grandfather like to write poetry so I guess in runs in the family. I consider myself to be more of a thinker who likes who like to put my thoughts down on paper poetically.

Do you have a favorite poet?

I actually don’t have a favorite poet per se but as a teenager I enjoyed reading poetry from: Rudyard Kipling, Maya Angelou and Kahill Gibran.

What influenced you to submit to the Poetry Festival and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I came across WildSound by happenstance on Twitter. I saw the poetry contest on the website and just decided to give it a shot.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

This poem has the same title of the book I’m currently writing. Both have the same theme.

What is your passion in life?

My passion? Do I have to choose one? Okay, if so then I would have to say it is dancing. Mostly to music that uses drums like Cuban and Brazilian music.

My Demons – Poetry Reading by NADIA CABALLERO

Poetry performed by Michelle Alexander

Get to know the winning poet:

POETRY 7 questions:

What is the theme of your poem?

Theme of my poem…. um is chaos… darkness..

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

I think I would just want them to be aware of the real fear some people face inside.

How long have you been writing poetry?

I think I’ve been writing poetry on and off for about 15 years.

Do you have a favorite poet?

Edgar Allen Poe

What influenced you to submit to the Poetry Festival and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I see others poems read and thought is was really cool

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

I have only really written poems but I am thinking of writing a book.

What is your passion in life?

My children are my passion, and raising them to be un selfish and to follow their dreams.
I also love writing and playing pool 🙂

Betrayed with a Kiss, Poetry by Azzurra Nox

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Genre: Relationship, Romance, Love

Betrayed with a Kiss by Azzurra Nox

Answers cannot be found in your shattered reflection,
But you persist to search with your distressed eyes
Carving the image of your wrecked heart in the corridors of your soul.
Dead days pass you by—because
Eleven-fiftyseven knows all about your veils that
Fail to heal your bleeding wounds.

Gone forever are the days when
Heaven could be found in your boudoir,
Indigo tears fall uncontrollably—because
Jealousy rips your minuscule body with its tyrannical claws
Killing you in its cruel process.
Love for you now is nothing but a double dagger-inflicting Cupid, who

Marks your flesh with your lover’s name,
Nails his decayed passion deep within your
Opium-fueled fantasies.
Prick your bruised lips with a razor blade….
Quiet blood whispers its way down your pallid chin,
Rushes to seek an escape from your essence,

Strives to survive while you just…

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Cigarette Butts, Poetry by Rebeccah Pope

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Genre: Family

Cigarette Butts

My father made me.
Sculpted me out of the cigarette butts he & my mother left
outside the bar where they met.
Each butt falling,
landing
& forming
their foundation.
Accumulating,
into child after
child after child.
Children to sit at his feet.
Tugging at his heart
until he removed the strings.

By: Rebeccah Pope, 2016

 

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Deadline for POETRY Festival – Get your poem made into a MOVIE and seen by 1000s. Three options to submit:
http://www.wildsound.ca/poetrycontest.html

WATCH this month’s poetry readings performed by professional actors:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/may_2015_poetry_readings.html

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