FERNDALE, WA. – (KGMI.com) The Whatcom County Library System have sent a call out to all local teenagers as they plan to publish this year’s edition of their annual poetry collection.

“A Forest of Words” is the book our local library releases every spring made up entirely of poetry from Whatcom County teenagers in grades 6 through 12.

Submissions are now open for any qualified youth to send in up to two entries that are a length of one page or less.

Any Whatcom teens looking to participate can visit WCLS.org with a deadline of March 15th to submit their work.

Poems will be selected for publication by a panel of library staff and fellow area teens, with a poetry reading and celebration scheduled for May 10th at the Ferndale Library.