Cash prize on offer to wordsmiths (From Ledbury Reporter)
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Cash prize on offer to wordsmiths
8:20am Saturday 17th March 2012 in News
LEDBURY Poetry Festival has launched its 2012 Poetry Competition by offering a first prize of £1,000, plus a week of creative writing at Ty Newydd, The National Writers’ Centre for Wales, with views over Cardigan Bay.
Entrants have until Tuesday, July 3 to enter, and the competition will be open to both adults and children.
The judge is Ian Duhig, a poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award three times, has won the Forward Best Prize and the National Poetry Prize twice.
Anyone seeking a competition leaflet should phone the Ledbury Poetry office on 0845 458 1743.