Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition (deadline Tues 9th July 2013)
Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition 2013 now open!
First Prize £1000 and a week at Ty Newydd, the National Writers' Centre for Wales,
is the sponsor of the LPF poetry competition..
Judge
Esther Morgan- Judge for adults, young people and children
Since winning an Eric Gregory award in 1998 Esther has produced three collections of poetry.
The first, Beyond Calling Distance, was published in 2001 by Bloodaxe Books and went on to win the Aldeburgh
First Collection Prize and was also shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the third, Grace, was
shortlisted for the TS Eliot award in 2011. She has taught at UEA and was editor of Reactions Magazine.
Prizes
All winners will have the opportunity to read their winning poems at the 2014 Festival (4 - 13 July 2104)
Adults
First Prize £1000 plus Tŷ Newydd writing course
Second Prize £500
Third Prize £250
Young People
Category Y (12 – 17)
First Prize £100
Second Prize £50
Third Prize £25
Children
Category C Children (11 and under)
First Prize £25 book token
Second Prize £15 book token
Third Prize £10 book token
Full information about the competition and entry forms to download can be found here:
www.poetry-festival.co.uk/poetry-competition.html
(downloadable entry forms in the right hand column of the page)