Ledbury Poetry International Competition with Prize Pool of £2000 and In-Kind Prizes
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Applicant criteria
Nationality
No specific nationality requiredAge
- No specific age required
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity Field
Foreign Languages and LiteratureLocation
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Application formOpportunity description
Ledbury Poetry Festival Limited is accepting entries for Ledbury Poetry Competition 2023.
Benefits
- First Prize: £1000 cash and a week’s poetry course with Arvon
Second Prize: £500
Third Prize: £250 - Winners will be invited to perform their work at Ledbury Poetry Festival 2024
Eligibility criteria
- The competition is international, open to poets writing in the English language. You must be 18 years of age or over to enter
- Each entry costs £6.00. You may enter up to 10 poems at any time.
- The length of each poem must not exceed 40 lines. (This applies to the written lines of the poem. Titles, epigraphs, line spaces between stanzas and dedications are not counted as lines.)
- All applications must be submitted online through the entry form on this page (https://ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/ledbury-poetry-competition-2023/)
- Please submit each poem as a single PDF file. Each poem must be submitted as a separate document, up to 10 documents can be attached to your application online.
- Please include the title of your poem in the poem and name your file with the title of your poem.
- The competitor’s name must NOT appear in the poems or in the document file name – names must be included on the entry form details only.
- All entries must be the original work of the entrant and should not have been previously published, broadcasted, or accepted for publication by a magazine, or have won competitions elsewhere.
- Copyright remains with the author, but Ledbury Poetry reserves the right to have entries performed at the Festival, on radio, TV, or stage, published on the internet, in an anthology or used for publicity purposes at any stage in the future.
About Ledbury Poetry:
Ledbury Poetry is a registered charity interested in poetry and organize many related activities, including Ledbury Poetry Festival. That is a poetry festival in many languages, set in a beautiful market town near the Malverns.
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