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Swale Life Poetry Competition (January 2012)
Closing Date: 31 January 2012
Details: #5 in the quarterly poetry competition in aid of Diversity House, a charity based in Sittingbourne, Kent, publishers of Swale Life magazine. This competition is for previously unpublished poems in English Language, on any subject, in any style, up to 50 lines long (excluding title). Poems entered must not have been posted to any website or blog, and must not be under consideration for publication, or accepted for publication elsewhere. First Prize: £100.00 Second Prize: £50.00 Third Prize: £30.00 High Commendation Prizes: 2 x £10.00 First Publication: All prize winners will receive first publication in Swale Life Magazine at www.swalelife.com on 28th February 2012, and will be included in the second Swale Life Anthology to be published in January 2013. Entry Fees: £3 per poem, £12 for 5 poems. £16 for 7 poems and £22 for 10 poems. Donations to Charity: A third of net entry fees and all profits from the sale of the anthology will go to Diversity House. The Judge: Mandy Pannett - author of Frost Hollow.Competition Administration: Eastern Light EPM International -organisers of Excel for Charity writing competitions series. Enter Online or By Post
To Enter online (1) Select the number of stories you wish to enter from the PayPal Drop-Down Menu below, click on pay now, and make the applicable payment securely. You will be given a Transaction ID or Receipt Number by PayPal. Make a note of this. (2) Create a Cover Note titled SWALE LIFE POETRY COMPETITION JANUARY 2012 which should have the Title(s) of your poem(s), your Name, Pen Name (if applicable), Mailing Address, E-mail Address and Telephone Number. YOUR NAME OR ANY OTHER IDENTIFYING MARKS MUST NOT APPEAR ON ANY OF THE POETRY PAGES. (3) Send your poems, and your Cover Note as Word, or rtf attachments to excelforcharity@easternlightepm.com in the subject line, type SWALE LIFE POETRY JANUARY 2012 followed by your TRANSACTION ID.
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1. You may enter as many poems as you want. 2. The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into. 3. The primary aims of this competition are to raise money for the charity and to honour the winning writers. The prize money is expected to be generated by the entry fees. In the event that there are too few entries to pay the prize money from the entry fees after a third has been earmarked for donation to the charity, we reserve the right to (a) elect to incur the expense of making up the prize money from our own funds, (b) reapportion the prize money in agreement with the winners. We have so far never done that. (c) refund all entry fees to the entrants by the methods they paid for their entries. (d) Extend the entry deadline to try and make up the numbers. 4. Poems will not be returned, please don't send your only copy. 5. Although the results of our competitions are usually published on our website, many entrants still write us expecting personal notifications of the results. If you would like to receive information on the results, judge's report, or news about our other competitions, please join our e-mail mailing list at http://easternlightepm.com/excelforcharity/mailing-list we will never disclose your e-mail address to any person or organisation outside Excel for Charity without your prior written consent.
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Mandy Pannett is a poet, novelist and
freelance creative writing tutor. Her poetry has appeared in
journals in the UK, Europe, Canada and the States. Three
collections have been published - Bee Purple and Frost
Hollow (Oversteps Books) and Allotments in the Orbital
(Searle Publishing). Her novella The Onion Stone was
published in November 2011 by Pewter Rose Press and is achieving
good reviews and sales. She is currently working on a new poetry
collection and considering, with some trepidation, ideas for a
future novel. She has been a prize winner in several national
competitions and enjoys judging others.
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