Deadline: 30 November 2010
Awel Aman Tawe Poetry Competition
for adults and children
Theme: ‘Climate Change’
Climate change - we hear about it all the time, we see the floods, the food riots, the migration. We reuse our plastic bags, switch off our lights, get out of the car and onto the bus. We see our own weather changing, the late summer, the heavy rain, the mosquitoes. But not a lot of people are writing poetry about it. Poets, as Percy Bysshe Shelley said ‘are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’. So get writing!
Closing date: 30th November 2010
Prizes:
Adults:
1st £200 / 2nd £50 / 3rd £25
Children:
1st £20 / 2nd £10 / 3rd £5
Judges:
Gillian Clarke (English entries)
National Poet of Wales since 2008. President of Ty Newydd writers’ centre, which she co–founded in 1990. Her latest books, At the Source and A Recipe for Water, are both published by Carcanet.
Menna Elfyn (Welsh entries)
Award winning poet and author of 10 collections of poetry. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages. Her most recent collection Perfect Blemish / Perffaith Nam, is published by Bloodaxe.
Prize winners will be notified by January 2011. A prize-giving evening with Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn and eco-poet Susan Richardson will take place 25th February 2011 at Pontardawe Arts Centre.
To enter:
You may submit as many poems as you like as long as your entry is accompanied by the correct fee.
Adults: £3 per poem or 4 for £10
Children: £1 per poem or 4 for £3
All poems submitted must be original work of the entrant. They cannot be returned so please don’t send your only copy. Each poem should be no more than 40 lines on any aspect of the theme of Climate Change. It must be typewritten. Please don’t put your name or address on the poems. Instead, you should put your name, contact details and titles of all poems submitted on an accompanying piece of paper.
Copyright of each poem remains with the author, but Awel Aman Tawe has the unrestricted right to publish the winning poems.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your poems, accompanying details and a cheque to
Awel Aman Tawe Poetry Competition
76-78 Heol Gwilym
Cwmllynfell
Swansea
SA9 2GN
More information here.
Awel Aman Tawe Poetry Competition
for adults and children
Theme: ‘Climate Change’
Climate change - we hear about it all the time, we see the floods, the food riots, the migration. We reuse our plastic bags, switch off our lights, get out of the car and onto the bus. We see our own weather changing, the late summer, the heavy rain, the mosquitoes. But not a lot of people are writing poetry about it. Poets, as Percy Bysshe Shelley said ‘are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’. So get writing!
Closing date: 30th November 2010
Prizes:
Adults:
1st £200 / 2nd £50 / 3rd £25
Children:
1st £20 / 2nd £10 / 3rd £5
Judges:
Gillian Clarke (English entries)
National Poet of Wales since 2008. President of Ty Newydd writers’ centre, which she co–founded in 1990. Her latest books, At the Source and A Recipe for Water, are both published by Carcanet.
Menna Elfyn (Welsh entries)
Award winning poet and author of 10 collections of poetry. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages. Her most recent collection Perfect Blemish / Perffaith Nam, is published by Bloodaxe.
Prize winners will be notified by January 2011. A prize-giving evening with Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn and eco-poet Susan Richardson will take place 25th February 2011 at Pontardawe Arts Centre.
To enter:
You may submit as many poems as you like as long as your entry is accompanied by the correct fee.
Adults: £3 per poem or 4 for £10
Children: £1 per poem or 4 for £3
All poems submitted must be original work of the entrant. They cannot be returned so please don’t send your only copy. Each poem should be no more than 40 lines on any aspect of the theme of Climate Change. It must be typewritten. Please don’t put your name or address on the poems. Instead, you should put your name, contact details and titles of all poems submitted on an accompanying piece of paper.
Copyright of each poem remains with the author, but Awel Aman Tawe has the unrestricted right to publish the winning poems.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your poems, accompanying details and a cheque to
Awel Aman Tawe Poetry Competition
76-78 Heol Gwilym
Cwmllynfell
Swansea
SA9 2GN
More information here.
