Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
Submissions for the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award are now been accepted for detailed information on how to enter read on.
The Poetry Society’s ‘Young National Poetry Competition’, this prize is open to poets ages 11-17 and is supported by the Foyle Foundation. Top fifteen winners aged 15-17 spend a week on an Arvon residency course with their judges. Winners in the 11-14 age range can win a visit to their school by one of the Poetry Society’s highly experienced team of poets who work in schools.
Closing Date 31 July 2008
You can now enter your poems by clicking the link below!
Teachers can use our Class Set Entry Form
to enter whole classes
available here as PDF or Word document
Or you can send your poems by post, with an entry form. Please send your poems and entry form to: FYP 2008 (W), The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.
You can request an entry form, or a copy of the 2007 winners’ anthology, The Wouldbegoods, by sending a C5 stamped, self-address envelope to the same address. Teachers can request a class set of resources. Visit our Teachers Notes section for details.
Click here to read the press release. And scroll down to read the rules.