Still Time Enter Your Poem Festival Of Words Poetry Competition

Still Time Enter Your Poem Festival Of Words Poetry Competition
Still Time Enter Your Poem Festival Of Words Poetry Competition

There is still time to enter the East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition for 2021.

Your poem should be no more than 45 lines, on one side of A4 paper. All entries must be submitted and paid for by Saturday, 27 November 2021 at 11.59pm. 

The competition will reach its climax with an event at North Library on Saturday, 29 January 2022, at 11 am, to celebrate the winning poets, hear from the judges, and listen to the winning poems.

The theme of the competition this year is ‘My Reasons to be Cheerful’. Entries will be judged by a panel consisting of Matthew Hedley Stoppard and Wendy Pratt and led by James Nash, local writer and poet, who shares his time between and Bridlington.

Poems are submitted anonymously so that each is judged purely on its merits. All the winners will be invited to the event at North Bridlington Library. Entries are open now and cost £4 per entry.

Prizes on offer for the winning entries include the £500 CollectionHQ prize (CollectionHQ are the leading collection performance improvement solution for public libraries); and the East Riding Gold Prize of £200 and the East Riding Silver Prize of £150.

In addition, there will be six Highly Commended prizes of £25 each (two for adults and two each for primary and secondary school pupils); a Prison Competition prize of a £100 voucher; and a Young Poets’ Prize : school pupils could win £75, with four prizes for primary school pupils, and four for secondary school pupils.

Councillor , the portfolio holder for cultural and leisure assets, said: “We look forward to receiving some wonderful poetry from all age groups again this year!”

To enter, apply and pay via https://www.festivalofwords.co.uk/poetry-comp/



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