Online Children's Poetry Competition from Morrab Library with a Chance to Win £75

• All entries must be submitted by an adult able to submit on behalf of the child: the parent/guardian or the child's teacher who has the parent or guardian's permission.
• The children's competition is divided into two age categories:
  • From 4 to 11 years.
  • From 12 to 17 years.
  • Please select an age group based on the child's age at the time of participation.
• The participating poem must be an original work by the participating child.
• Works that have been previously published or have previously won an award can't apply to this competition.
• Applications to any other competition concurrent with the competition are permitted provided that you immediately withdraw from the Patricia Eichen Poetry Prize if it wins elsewhere by sending an email to: poetryprize@morrablibrary.org.uk
• The adult responsible for submission may only submit one poem per child to the competition.
• Edits can't be made to poems once they have been submitted.
• Copyright remains with the author, but the Dennis Myner Trust and Morrab Library reserve the right to publish entries on radio, television or theatre, online, or to use them for publicity purposes at any stage of the competition in the future.
• The jury's decision is final and no discussions will be entered into with the participants and the competition judges, Morrab Library staff and the Dennis Miner Foundation will not provide any comments on the entries.
• The Dennis Myner Trust and Morrab Library reserve the right to change the judging panel without notice.
• Winning entries will be shared on the competition website and social media and used for journalistic and publicity purposes.
• Any photographs taken of winning participants may be used on the competition website, on social media and for journalistic purposes unless expressly declined in the competition entry form.
• All entries will be judged anonymously; Therefore, the poet's name must not appear anywhere in the poem itself, or in the file name or title. Submissions that contain the poet's name in the title, poem document, or file name will be disqualified.
• The poem must not exceed 40 lines (the title and empty lines do not count as a line).
• The poem must be written in English.
• The poem must be in 12pt font, in any legible font, and in black ink.
• You can write your poem manually.
• Your poem must be in PDF format.
• The file name must be the title of the poem, for untitled sections, please use the first line of the poem instead.

About Morrab Library:

The Morrab is an independent library established in 1818, situated in Penzance’s Morrab Gardens overlooking the sea. In Penwith It's fortunate to have a rare, remarkable and rewarding thing – a large independent library.

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