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Poetry Space Competition 2010

Closing date: This has been extended to August 31st. Winners will be announced by October 31st.


Poetry Space exists to promote wider participation in poetry and to showcase new poets alongside more established writers. In order to develop our free online magazine and platform for poets we are holding a competition; The Poetry Space Competition 2010.

Poetry Space Editors Susan Jane Sims and Azadeh K Taj are pleased to announce that the Poetry Space competition is now open for entries.

Prizes:
1st Prize : £100 cash prize, a feature page in our anthology to include your winning poem, an invitation to read your poem at the anthology launch party and five free copies of the publication
2nd Prize : £50 cash prize, plus publication of your poem in our annual anthology, the opportunity to read your poem at the anthology launch party and 2 free copies of our anthology.
3rd Prize: £25 cash prize, publication of your poem in our annual anthology, the opportunity to read your poem at the launch party and a free copy of the anthology.
10 runners up will have their poems published in the anthology, receive a free copy and an invitation to the launch party.

Rules:
Entry fee is £5 to enter up to 3 poems.

Postal entries to Poetry Space Competition 2010, 21 Davis Close, Barrs Court, Bristol BS30 7BU.
Print each poem on a separate sheet of paper along with its title. On a fourth sheet put your contact details: name, address, e-mail address,telephone number and the titles of the poems.


E-mail entries. Send in your poems by e-mail. You can send one attachment but please type each poem on a separate page. Please send your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number in a separate attachment along with the titles of the poems.

All poems must have a maximum length of thirty lines.

All poems must be your own original work and have not been previously published online or in print.

Your name must not appear on the page alongside your poem as all entries are judged anonymously. Please write your name, address and contact details on a separate sheet of paperalong with the titles of your poems.

Online payments:

Entry fee

Up to 3 poems £5.00 Up to 6 poems £10.00 Up to 9 poems £15.00

Judge: Phillip Lyons is the sole adjudicator in the competition. Phillip has taught creative writing and English literature classes in a variety of settings, including universities, prisons and psychiatric hospitals. Philip is the author of two pamphlet collections, Borrowed Time (Ozymandias Press, 1995) and Rainy Day (Loxwood Stoneleigh, 2003). His poems have been published widely in magazines, as well as broadcast on Radio Two and Radio Bristol, and he was a runner-up in the 1996 TLS/Poems on the Underground poetry competition. He has been invited to read his work at events throughout the South West, including the Wells Festival of Literature and Thornbury Arts Festival.

The Poetry Business
(2010 Book & Pamphlet Competition www.poetrybusiness.co.uk)

And if you strike while the iron is hot, you can maybe make a mint with Writing Forge,
The Manchester Prize or the Basil Bunting Award
Or pick, pick, pick up a prize, from Picador and have them publish your first collection

Something new from Eastbourne, Malton and ... Newark;
old, aka golden oldies (lengthier too) for Second Light.
And not blue, but boldly - go with Graffiti for travel writing.

Yes, Arts Advance: it’s poetry all the way, down to Southport or up to Yorkshire,
West with Aber, as far as the USA’s Dorothy Rosenberg Prizes

So keep your eyes open for Sentinel and WriteonSite, ears peeled for Spokenink
and find out more about – ooh all kinds of things (like where to fit in borrow...)



Events

Azadeh will be launching her new collection of poetry Neon Love at The Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden on the 16th of September. She will also be reading excerpts for the first time. Watch this space for more details!


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