Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition
The prestigious Ledbury Poetry Competition is always judged by leading poets and has launched a number of poetic careers. This year the judge is Jackie Kay, who will also be the poet in residence at the Ledbury Poetry Festival 2008, running workshops and ‘one on ones’ for anyone wishing to develop their writing skills.
The Ledbury Poetry Competition is one of the most respected in the country and is renowned for spotting new talent first. Previous winners of the poetry competition include Jacob Polley, who has since published two collections with Picador. His first collection Brink was a Poetry Book Society choice and was short listed for the TS Eliot Award. Mike Barlow won the poetry competition in 2005 and went on to win the 2006 National Poetry Competition. His book is called Another Place and is published by the innovative Salt Modern Poets. Christopher James won at Ledbury in 2006 and his book The Invention of Butterfly is now published by Ragged Raven Poetry.
Competition winners are offered the chance to read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, to meet other poets and to enjoy the other events.
“Winning at Ledbury was wonderful.” Jacob Polley
What are you waiting for? Download an entry form here.
The form is a PDF file and may take a little while to download so please be patient.
The closing date is 5pm, Thursday 1 May 2008
