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POETRY COMPETITION 2010



As part of the Festival we will be holding a Poetry Competition with three different age categories:

  CATEGORY A: 7 - 11 years
  CATEGORY B: 12 - 17 years
  CATEGORY C: 18 and above

There will be three prizes in each category, the prizes  in the form of Book Tokens to the values of:

  First Prize £20
  Second Prize £15
  Third Prize £10

The winners will receive their prizes at a Special Event on the afternoon of Saturday 10th July which will close that day's proceedings. This event will be hosted by BBC Radio Cumbria's Gordon Swindlehurst. The winning poems will be recorded and broadcast on BBC Radio Cumbria.

The three judges for the competition will be acclaimed poets Mary Robinson and Andrew Forster (from the Wordsworth Trust), and Jim Eldridge, now an award winning author and scriptwriter, and formerly a performance poet.

Rules

  1. Entrants must be resident in Cumbria

  2. All entries must have been previously unpublished

  3. Maximum length of any poem: one page (or 40 lines)

  4. Each poem must state which Age Category it is entered for

  5. For bulk entries there will be a limit of 10 poems per school or organisation
    (Schools are requested to pre-judge and send their own selections)

  6. Individual entries are welcomed, limited to one poem per individual

  7. In order to ensure fairness, the judges will not be told the names of entrants. To ensure this:
    a) We would request that all schools and organisations submitting bulk entries remove the name of the writer and replace it with a code of their choice (eg number)
    b) Entries submitted by individuals will have the name of the writer removed (or blacked out) by the Submissions Committee and given a code number before being passed to the judges

  8. Poems can be submitted electronically as an email attachment or by post
    As an email attachment:
    Send to: poetry@writfest.co.uk
    By Post:
    Send to: "Poetry Competition", c/o Pear Tree Farm, Bowness-on-Solway, Wigton, Cumbria CA7 5AF
    (If sending by post please send 3 copies of each poem)

  9. Closing date for entries: 15 May 2010