Tuesday 2 August 2011

Cafe Writers Poetry Competition


Deadline: 30TH NOV 2011

PRIZES
1ST £1000
2nd £300 3rd £150
Five Commended Prizes of £50
Funniest Poem not winning another prize £100
Norfolk Prize £100
awarded to the best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident not winning another prize

Entry Fee £4 per poem; or £10 for 3 poems and £2.00 per poem thereafter

SOLE JUDGE Pascale Petit

Pascale Petit has published five poetry collections. Her latest, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo, published by Seren in 2010 (UK) and Black Lawrence Press in 2011 (US), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Book of the Year in The Observer.

Competition Rules
• Maximum of 40 lines (excluding title) on one side of A4.
• Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any web-site or broadcast.
• Entries must show no name, address or identifying marks other than the title.

Prizewinners will be notified in writing by 31st January 2012. The list of prizewinners will be displayed on the website after the
prize-giving ceremony at Café Writers on 13th February 2012.

Entries should be sent to: Café Writers Poetry Competition, 168a Silver Rd, Norwich NR3 4TH with a cheque payable to Café Writers or enter and pay online at www.cafewriters.org.uk


Name……………………………………….

Address…………………………………………………………………

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email…………………………………….Phone….…………………

I heard of the competition by………………………………….

Poem 1 Title……………………………………………………………….(1 Poem £4)
Poem 2 Title……………………………………………………………….(2 Poems £8)
Poem 3 Title……………………………………………………………….(3 Poems £10)
Poem 4 Title……………………………………………………………….(4 Poems £12)
Poem 5 Title……………………………………………………………….(5 Poems £14)
Poem 6 Title……………………………………………………………….(6 Poems £16)

1 comment:

Totalfeckineejit said...

£4 for a Café poem ?
Think I'll have a skinny Late and an almond croissant instead.