Post by Geoff on Jan 18, 2011 21:20:21 GMT -5
Wigtown Poetry Competition 2011
Closing Date: 03-May-11
Open to all
Details:
Brian Johnstone will judge and award the 1st Prize of £2500, the runner-up prize of £500 and eight additional prizes of £25 each. There is also a special prize for a Gaelic poem of £300, to be judged by Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul - Angus Peter Campbell, and a Scots Poem £300, to be judged by Rab Wilson.
Entry Fee: £8 for the first poem. Multiple entries: the first three poems cost a total of £22.00. Each subsequent entry after the first three costs £6 or a total of £16 for every additional block of 3
Contact: Competition rules and entry form are available to download www.wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp/index.asp
For further information contact: Carolyn Yates, Literature Development Officer Dumfries & Galloway Arts Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ
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If you missed Rab on Scottish Television's 'The Hour' 25th Jan 2011 here it is:
programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gossip/223332-scottish-poet-rab-wilson-celebrates-burns-day-with-the-hour/
www.dgarts.co.uk/1087/literature/rab-wilson-robert-burns-writing-fellow-for-dumfries-galloway/
Closing Date: 03-May-11
Open to all
Details:
Brian Johnstone will judge and award the 1st Prize of £2500, the runner-up prize of £500 and eight additional prizes of £25 each. There is also a special prize for a Gaelic poem of £300, to be judged by Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul - Angus Peter Campbell, and a Scots Poem £300, to be judged by Rab Wilson.
Entry Fee: £8 for the first poem. Multiple entries: the first three poems cost a total of £22.00. Each subsequent entry after the first three costs £6 or a total of £16 for every additional block of 3
Contact: Competition rules and entry form are available to download www.wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp/index.asp
For further information contact: Carolyn Yates, Literature Development Officer Dumfries & Galloway Arts Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ
=============================================
If you missed Rab on Scottish Television's 'The Hour' 25th Jan 2011 here it is:
programmes.stv.tv/the-hour/news-gossip/223332-scottish-poet-rab-wilson-celebrates-burns-day-with-the-hour/
www.dgarts.co.uk/1087/literature/rab-wilson-robert-burns-writing-fellow-for-dumfries-galloway/