1st prize: £100 2nd prize: £75 3rd prize: £50

Entrance fee: £3 for one poem, £5 for 2 poems, £10 for 4 poems

Closing date: 8 November 2013

Judge: Ann Gray has an MA in Creative writing from the University of Plymouth. Her collections include At The Gate

(Headland, 2008) & The Man I Was Promised (Headland, 2004). Her poems have been selected for the Forward Prize

Anthology in 1995 and 2008, and she was commended for the National Poetry Competition, 2010, second in the

Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Prize 2013 and earlier this year, has been the poet in residence at the Cambridge

University Botanic Garden as part of the Thresholds Cambridge University Museums Project.

For full competition details and rules visit: www.fireriverpoets.org.uk