25th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards @ The Promontory

All Ages

Doors 6:30pm

Show 7:00pm

25th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards

Presented by the Guild Literary Complex

The Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Awards (GBOMA) is an annual poetry competition founded by Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). The competition culminates in a live semi-finals event at which the top contestants selected by guest judges perform their original poems in live competition for a $500 prize awarded by the audience. It is ALWAYS a crowd pleaser & 2018 marks GBOMA’s 25th anniversary, so this year will be particularly special.

https://guildcomplex.org/gboma/

Submit an original, unpublished poem before August 13th in order to be a contestant:

https://guildcomplex.wufoo.com/forms/m1895t6k10jjfje/