Poets and Writers Called: 2019 will mark the fifth year of the Florida Loquat Literary Festival. Here is the official call: The Florida Loquat Festival is seeking one-page poetry or prose submissions for a reading at Frances Avenue Park in New Port Richey, Florida on March 23, 2019. We welcome all styles and forms as long as […]
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New Port Richey, FL (October 15, 2015) – Organizers for the annual festival are inviting the public to attend the unveiling of Leaves of Loquat, a community-created poetry chapbook celebrating the loquat, Florida’s urban fruit, on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at the New Port Richey Library in beautiful downtown New […]
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NEW PORT RICHEY (May 23, 2015) – Local resident and writer, Dell deChant, won first place and an honorable mention for two of his original poems submitted for consideration in the annual poetry contest presented by the Downtown New Port Richey Art Gallery. Annalise Mabe from USF represented the committee that read the anonymous poems […]
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