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Competitions
Competitions can be a great way to get in to writing poetry. All those listed here are annual ones. Follow the links to find out more and see if there is a competition that would inspire your class this year. › The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award › Children's Poetry Bookshelf National Write-A-Poem Competition › Inspired? Get Writing! Creative Writing Competition › The Christopher Tower Poetry Competition The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award Any writer between the ages of 11 and 17 can enter. Poets can enter as many poems as they choose, of any length and on any theme. Send for an entry form, or enter online at www.foyleyoungpoets.org Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award Competition entries cannot be returned, so make sure you send copies only. Prizes include books, plus free youth membership of the Poetry Society, poets visits for your school, and the prize-winners' writing course at the Arvon Centre, Lumb Bank. There are also special prizes for the two schools who inspire the most entries. Faber and Faber will present one school with the full Poet to Poet series and Bloodaxe Books will present the other with 25 of their most recent titles. Further details: www.foyleyoungpoets.org
Children's Poetry Bookshelf National Write-A-Poem Competition To link with National Poetry Day, the Children's Poetry Bookshlef is asking children, aged 7-11 years, to write a poem on the NPD theme each year. There are two age groups: 7-8 years and 9-11 years, and poems must be no longer than 25 lines. Submissions will be free, and will be accepted online at www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk and by post. Teachers can also download materials from the website to help their students write poems suitable for competition entry. Further details: www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk The Pushkin Prizes in Scotland 2007 The Pushkin Prize Guidelines are sent each August to every local authority secondary school in Scotland, inviting pupils in S1 and S2 to begin preparing their folio for the December deadline. Ten winners (including two from the parallel competition in St Petersburg) will be selected to join a residential creative writing course in May at the Arvon Foundation Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre near Inverness where they will be tutored by two professional writers. Previous tutors have included Scottish writers Gerry Cambridge, Diana Hendry and Catherine MacPhail. The Pushkin Prizes are supported by a website, www.pushkinprizes.net, which includes a valuable section called Writing Tips featuring guidance and advice from such well-known writers as Gill Arbuthnott, Stewart Conn, Gillian Cross, Jamila Gavin, and Robert Crawford. The website includes previous winning folios and photographs of the most recent residential course. The Pushkin Prizes anthology is published each ahtumn to showcase the winning entries. For further information, please contact the Director, Lindsey Fraser: Email: lindsey.fraser@tiscali.co.uk The Pushkin Prizes in Scotland were founded by the current Chair, Lady Butter CVO, the great great granddaughter of the Russian writer and poet, Alexander Sergei Pushkin. The Pushkin Prizes in Scotland include a unique category – The Special Endeavour Award – for S1 and S2 pupils who receive additional support with their reading and/or writing. The winner of this category is included in the party attending Prize-winners Week. A free place is made available for a teacher to attend the Prizewinners Week at the Arvon Foundation Moniack Mhor Writers' Centre. Further details: www.pushkinprizes.net
Inspired? Get Writing! Creative writing competition Prize-winners The winners are: Under 12 years 12 - 15 years Fiona Ritchie - 1st - Kilmalcolm 16 - 18 years Andrew McCormack - 1st - Paisley Unpublished adults Andy Jackson - 1st - Tayport, Fife Published adults Ian McDonough - 1st - Edinburgh Come and hear free public readings of the winning entries on Thursday 17 April at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at the National Gallery Complex: 10.30 - 11.30am: Under 12 years A book featuring the work of the winners and runners-up in the 2005/6 and 2006/7 competitions has been published by the National Galleries of Scotland in Association with SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority). This is available for sale in the National Galleries Shops and the Scottish Poetry Library. It can also be purchased online from www.nationalgalleries.org It is hoped that a second volume featuring the work of future winners and runners-up will be published in 2009. Inspired? Get Writing! is sponsored by SQA and the EIS and supported by the Scotsman. Competition Guidelines and Rules The competition is open to any person normally resident in Scotland. Entries will be placed in one of five categories, as follows:
Write a short poem or piece of prose inspired by one of the works in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland. The work may be selected from any of the NGS galleries (The National Gallery of Scotland, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, The Royal Scottish Academy, Duff House and Paxton House). Images of many of the works can be accessed through the NGS website www.nationalgalleries.org in the section 'Online Collections'. As a guideline, pieces should not be significantly over 1,000 words in length. Entries should be in the English language and typed with double spacing. Entries can be submitted by email to development@esuscotland.org.uk and by post to: English-Speaking Union Scotland Please note entries should be submitted using both methods where possible but this is not an essential requirement. There is no limit on the number of entries that can be submitted. Each submission should state clearly on the back or on the accompanying email:
Further details: www.nationalgalleries.org Christopher Tower Poetry Competition The Christopher Tower poetry competition competition offers young people the opportunity to win a £3,000 first prize and gain a place at the popular Tower Poetry Summer School where they can develop their writing skills alongside top poets and tutors. The Tower competition is open to all sixth-form students in UK secondary schools and colleges. As well as an impressive first prize, it offers £1,000 and £750 to the second and third prize-winners, and substantial prizes for the runners-up and for the winners' schools. Many of the competition's past winners have gone on to achieve further acclaim for their writing in other competitions or in the publishing world. Funded by a bequest from the late Christopher Tower to Christ Church, the annual Tower prizes form a significant part of an ongoing programme to encourage sixth-form students in every educational environment to enjoy reading poetry and to gain the confidence to discover and develop their own writing skills. The competition is open to all 16-18 year-olds in full or part-time education in UK secondary schools and colleges, and all submissions are free. Students and schools can obtain entry forms and further information about the competition via the Tower Poetry website, www.towerpoetry.org.uk, by e-mail to info@towerpoetry.org.uk, or by calling 01865 286591. Further details: www.towerpoetry.org.uk
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