Life—and love—can turn on a dime.

Gotham Writers’ Workshop has teamed up with Ellen Hopkins and Simon & Schuster publishing, for a truly unique poetry writing competition – The Tricks Writing Contest. Writing in verse, Ellen Hopkins deals with tough subjects—addiction, abuse—in her books and her latest, Tricks, is no different.

Now it is your turn to write about a tough subject or trying life experience—real or imagined—spun into four to eight stanzas of verse.

You can enter online at WritingClasses.com/Tricks. There is no entry fee or purchase required.

Ellen Hopkins will read the entries and the author of her favorite entry will win a free six-week online writing class from Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Ellen will also post the winning entry on her website, EllenHopkins.com. The winner and ten runners-up will also receive a personalized copy of Tricks signed by the author. There is no entry fee and no purchase is necessary. Only online entries will be accepted.

If you need to get some of your creative juices flowing, you can check out some poems from Tricks here.