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DIVERSITY HOUSE (EXCEL FOR
CHARITY)
POETRY COMPETITION 2009
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Results Info
We are pleased to announce the
first “Excel for Charity” Writing Competition. This poetry
competition is in aid of Diversity House – a Swale-based
charity addressing issues of social integration and equal
opportunities for all. Diversity House recently hosted a
weeklong event; Swale – A Celebration of Cultures which was
a resounding success, and served to bring people in the
Swale area together in brotherhood, friendship and
understanding. The aim of this competition is to give
writers from all over the world a chance to pitch their
skills against those of their peers with the aim of
achieving literary glory, but in doing so, they also
help a charity financially.
Competition Information
Subject: Poems may be
on any subject.
Length: Maximum 40
lines per poem
Entry Fees: £3.00 per
poem or £12.00 for 5 poems
(£1.00 from every single entry
and £4.00 from every multi-poem entry will be donated to
Diversity House)
First Prize: £150.00
Second Prize: £75.00
Third Prize: £35.00
Highly Commended Entries:
Subject to the quality of entries, if the judge finds 48 to
64 poems of high enough quality, then we shall publish them
as an anthology edited by Geoff Stevens and Nnorom
Azuonye
(Editor of Sentinel Literary Quarterly and author of Letter
to God and Other Poems, and The Bridge Selection: Poems for
the Road. Azuonye is also Chief Operating Officer, Eastern
Light EPM International.)
Entry deadline: 31st
March 2009
(Postmark by)*
Results due: 5th
May 2009
Judge: GEOFF STEVENS,
Editor of Purple Patch Magazine, author of 20 Poetry
Collections including The Complacency of the English, and
Crossing the Tamar. Stevens is holder of the Ted Slade Award
2009 for services to Poetry.
Competition Administration:
Eastern Light EPM International
How to Enter
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Poems must be in English
language and typed.
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Author’s name and address
MUST NOT appear on the page.
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Write your name and
address on a sheet of paper and put the paper in a
sealed envelope and write DIVERSITYPOETRY 2009 followed
by the TITLE(S) of your poem(s) on the back of the
envelope.
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Makes cheques or Postal
Orders (in GB£ only) payable to EASTERN LIGHT EPM
INTERNATIONAL
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Send your poems, the
envelope with your name inside, and your entry fee to:
Eastern Light EPM
International
Unit 136
113 – 115 George Lane
London
E18 1AB
United Kingdom
You may also enter by
e-mail**
International/online entrants
may enter by e-mail and pay entry fees by Paypal. To enter
by this method please follow these steps:
1. Click on one of the Paypal
Buttons below that matches your entry preference and make
the applicable payment.
2. After making your payment,
you will be given a Transaction ID by Paypal. Make a note of
the Transaction ID.
3. Submit your poems to
easternlightepm@gmail.com as a
Word or rtf attachment. In the subject line, type DIVERSITY
HOUSE POETRY COMPETITION 2009 Followed by your Transaction
ID.
4. You will receive an
acknowledgement of receipt of poems within 48 hours.
Terms & Conditions: You
may enter as many poems as you want. The decision of the
judge is final, and no communication will be entered into.
For transparency, Eastern Light makes it clear that we shall
retain what is left from the entry fees after a third has
been donated to the charity, the prize money and
adjudication fees paid, to cover administration and
promotional costs. In the event that there are too few
entries to pay the prize money from the entry fees, we will
forgo our share of the money and may if necessary contribute
our own funds to ensure the prize money is guaranteed.
*Postal entries must be
Postmarked by 31st March 2009 and must be received by 7th of
April 2009.
**Online entries must be
received by midnight 31st March, 2009.
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