The Connecticut Young Writers Trust Tuesday announced a renewed schedule of activities for 2011 -- after it had faced dissolution but, in the words of its organizers, "crawled out of the grave in December to resume operations for its 14th year."
At a press conference in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, the group announced that a "rescue donor" contributed $10,000 and the Connecticut State University System -- which has provided poets and writers from all four of its campuses since the writers program's inception in 1998 -- resumed logistical support.
The deadline is next Tuesday for the trust's 2011 competition for teen-aged writers of prose and poetry. The group says it will be able to distribute thousands of dollars in prizes this spring. Details are on Its website is at http://www.ct.edu/initiatives/ctyoungwriters/.
For more information, contact Young Writers Trust Executive Director Ron Winter at hjrwinter@comcast.net or 860-228-6803.