Lakeland Poetry Magazine Competition 2016

Judge : Jayne Sykes (poet and editor)
Deadline: 29^th February 2016
Prizes, 1st £100, and the runner up will receive £25

A new competition for a new magazine.  Lakeland Poetry Magazine will be published twice each year the first edition is planned for Easter 2016. 

The competition is for poems of no more than 50 lines.  Shorter poems are acceptable.

Poems must be the entrant's own work and not have been published, self published, published on a website or broadcast. 

The judge of the competition is Jayne Sykes.  The decision of the judge is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Entries must be in English. They can be on any subject and in any style or poetic form. 

Entry £3per poem - three poems £8- five poems £12

Entries cannot be returned, fees cannot be refunded and alterations cannot be made once entries have been submitted.

Acceptance of the rules is implied by entry.

Entrants who do not comply with the entry rules will be disqualified.

You will receive an email from the competition administrator letting you know that the poems have been delivered safely and an immediate payment receipt from PayPal.

A list of prize winners and short listed entries will be published on this webpage within three weeks of the closing date, 29^th February 2016.

Please see you keep a copy of your work as entries will not be returned. Copyright remains with the entrant, but shortlisted poems may be selected to feature in our magazine, and the winning poem will be published on this website

We look forward to receiving and reading your work.

How to enter;

Entry fees are paid by PayPal to the account of Lakelandpoetry@post.com using a PayPal account or Visa or Mastercard.  On paying the appropriate fee PayPay will issue you with a transaction receipt number which should be noted. he fees are - for 1 poem £3 - for 3 poems £8- for 5 poems £12

Put poem(s) to be entered in a single Word file, without identifying features, and attach to an email

In the body of the email please state

     your name,

     address,

     email address,

     the title of your poem(s),

     transaction receipt number for the entry fee.

 

Mark the subject of the email - "Competition entry" 

and send to  Lakelandpoetry@post.com 

 

Good luck.