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P – The VOLE Summer Single Poem Competition: “Autumn makes me sing”
July 31, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
£5.50
The VOLE Summer Competition
’AUTUMN MAKES ME SING’
NO THEME (despite the title) – poems on any subject are invited
Open to international entries
1st Prize: £50; 2nd Prize: £30; 3rd Prize: £20.
50 poems will be selected and published in an anthology and all poets included will receive a free copy.
Dorothy Parker famously said:
“Summer makes me drowsy.
Autumn makes me sing.
Winter’s pretty lousy,
but I hate Spring.”
“Summer makes me drowsy.
Autumn makes me sing.
Winter’s pretty lousy,
but I hate Spring.”
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We don’t hate Spring — In March and April we thoroughly enjoyed editing the VOLE 2024 Spring Anthology, GREEN FUSES, from the entries to our Winter/Spring Competition. Now we’re planning an Autumn Anthology based on poems entered in our Summer Competition. As always, the anonymously entered poems will be judged by an external adjudicator and 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes will be awarded. 50 of the poems will be included in AUTUMN MAKES ME SING, published in October 2024. Our judge is to be Kathryn Southworth, poet and academic, the author of a collection and three pamphlets of poetry, and co-author of a third (with Belinda Singleton).
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We invite you to enter poems on any topic, up to 30 lines plus title, previously unpublished and original, not translations.
Entry fee: 1 poem: £5.50; up to 3 poems: £10.50.