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Literary Competitions:
Literary Competitions:
Southport Writers’ Circle International Poetry Competition 2009. Prizes: 1st £200, 2nd £100, 3rd £50. Humour Prize £25, Local Prize £25. Entry fee £3 per poem. Please write enclosing a sae for a copy of the rules to: Southport Writers’ Circle Poetry Competition 2009, 32 Dover Road, Birkdale, Southport Merseyside PR8 4TB. Judge Jane Aspinall. Closing date for entries: 30th April 2009.
Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition. Closing date: 31 January 2009.
Download details from. www.kentandsussexpoetrysociety.org.
Norfolk Poets and Writers. TIPS OPEN PAMPHLET COMP. Sonnets, Sestinas and Haiku only. Adj: Bernard M Jackson Deadline: 30 December 2008. Entry fee: £10 for 12 poems, posted together OR: £5 for 5 poems, posted together; £2 for 1 poem. 1st Prize: £10 or: pamphlet publication for any outstanding poet (at publisher’s discretion) with sufficient poems short-listed for publication. Other book prizes.
RULES (to avoid disqualification)
1) Entry fee + SAE (A5, size of Tips) or 2 stamps. UK only.
2) Your entry denotes acceptance of publication without payment, in Tips or a competition anthology.
3) Please use clear typefaces, no personal details on entry.
4) Follow all form rules, no variations; 5-7-5 haiku only; avoid archaic language and inversions.
5) Adjudicator will select 1st Prize, other book prizes, and all suitable for publication.
6) To win pamphlet publication, the best short-listed candidate will be selected, provided (s)he has sufficient quality poems on the shortlist, at editor’s discretion.
7) No-one may enter more than £20 total entry value.
Pamphlet: 24 pages, 20 pages of poems, liasing with editor, 20 copies to poet of min print run 50, publisher sales fund Tips. Wendy Webb Books (TIPS/P/1008), 9 Walnut Close, Norwich, NR8 6YN. Cheques: WENDY WEBB BOOKS. tipsforwriters@yahoo.co.uk
Café Writers > OPEN POETRY COMPETITION 2008, CLOSING DATE 30TH NOV 2008, PRIZES 1ST £750 2nd £300 3rd £150 also £150 JARROLD BOOK VOUCHERS awarded to best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident. Entry Fee £4 per poem; or £10 for 3 poems and £2.00 per poem thereafter. SOLE JUDGE PENELOPE SHUTTLE Entry Form also available from www.cafewriters.org.uk
Norfolk Poets and Writers Tips Open Pamphlet Competition. Sonnets, Sestinas and Haiku only. Close 31st December. For rules contact tipsforwriters@yahoo.co.uk