If you're a poet, and you like competing for money, why not pen a poem about your passion, and enter the Poetry competition being run by Adelaide Plains Poets? There is one section for adults and two for students - Primary school student, or Secondary school student.
The entry form and guidelines are here on this blog, and the closing date isn't here yet, but is not that long after Christmas - 24 January. That means if you get writing your poem now, you'll have plenty of time to whizz it off to the competition secretary before entries close!
This competition is for Australians only, so sorry, if you don't come from this great southern land!
Have a Merry Christmas, and don't forget to enter the competition - the prizes are pretty good, if you ask me!
Friday, December 6, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
My Passion
It has been brought to my attention that those using a hand held devise rather than a desk top computer may not be able to read or access the entry form or guidelines for our new poetry competition. Therefore, here they are, feel free to cut and paste, and share them with others!
ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS Inc
POETRY COMPETITION 2013/14
‘My
Passion’
ENTRY
GUIDELINES
ENTRY FORM
With
assistance from 5th element unearthed
ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS Inc
POETRY COMPETITION 2013/14
‘My
Passion’
1st, 2nd & 3rd
cash prizes, plus Highly Commended & Commended certificates as awarded by
judge. Total prize pool over $750
ENTRY
GUIDELINES
- Work entered in this competition must be original,
in English, unpublished and not have won a prize in any other competition.
Authors retain copyright.
- Theme ‘My Passion’
- Poems entered must in some way refer to the theme
- Open Class - poets 18 years & older
- Junior classes –
- Primary School student (one poem only)
- Secondary School student (one poem only)
- To maintain anonymity, entrant’s name should appear
on entry form only, not on poems. Entry forms are to include entrant’s
name, address, phone number, titles of poems submitted.
- Entries should be typed where possible, on one side
of paper only, one poem to a page
- Poems to be no longer than 60 lines
- Entry fees: Open class $5.00 per poem
entered
Junior
classes - no entry fee, only one poem per student
- Cheques/money orders to be made payable to
Adelaide Plains Poets Inc
- Entries to: Competition Secretary, 1594
Germantown Rd REDBANKS SA 5502
- Entries to be received by close of business 24 January
2014 – entries received after this date will not be considered for the
competition.
- Authors should retain a copy of their work, entries
will not be returned without provision of a SSAE
For further details contact:
Ms C Cordon (08) 85272412; 0418 806
490; jeebers@aussiebb.com.au; http://carolyn-poeticpause.blogspot.com.au/
With assistance from 5th element unearthed
ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS
INC
POETRY COMPETITION
2013/14
‘My
Passion’
ENTRY FORM
Name…………………..……………………Phone…………………
Address……………………………………………..…………………
.…………………………………………………………………………
Email………………………………..
Title of poem/s - ……………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………..
(use back of page for additional entries)
Entrants’ names or other details must not appear on poems
Declaration
by author: I agree to
comply with the Entry Guidelines and declare that the written work submitted in
my name is my own original work and has not been copied in part, or in full,
from any other source.
Author’s signature…………………………………..date…………………...
Date of birth
(if entering junior section) ………………………….……….…..
Name of
school (if entering junior section) …………………………………….
$5.00
per poem (OPEN CLASS ONLY – NO FEE FOR JUNIOR ENTRIES)
CLOSING DATE FOR
ENTRIES 24 January 2014
Cheques/money
orders to be made payable to Adelaide Plains Poets Inc, and sent with entries
to Competition Secretary, 1594 Germantown Rd REDBANKS SA 5502
Authors
should retain a copy of their work, entries will not be returned without
provision of a stamped self-addressed envelope, and a written request.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
New Poetry Competition Adelaide Plains Poets
So, today is the day for the Adelaide Plains Poets annual Poetry Competition to go out into the world. The entry form and guidelines are written and are here on this blog. They will be sent out to writing centres and groups around Australia over the next weeks.
The theme for this competition came in part from several different people. The initial idea that led to the theme of 'My Passion', came from an idea from a wanna be politician. This person suggested 'Sport' as a theme. This was rejected as being too narrow, and not interesting enough to poets. We pride ourselves on having themes for our competitions that are broad enough to appeal to creative people with amazing ideas!
On thinking further on the theme though, and having listened to the heartfelt way the proposer spoke of his passion for his particular sport, the idea of passion crept into the possible mix for the theme for this competition. Creative people are passionate people, with passions for life, for words, for Nature, for life!
So, another conversation, this time with the lovely person involved in supporting our competition for the 2012/2013 year. We spoke of Passion, our passions for life, and so the idea of 'My Passion' came into being, with the promise of support again from the 5th Element Unearthed, if 'My Passion' becomes the theme for the 2013/2014 competition.
This idea was put to members of the Adelaide Plains Chapter and Verse group, and held to be a fine idea, and so the decision was made!
If you have a grand passion in your life and you want to share it with the world, put pen to paper and write it down, then send your entry in! The entry form and guidelines are on the right hand side of this page, copy and paste as required. I'll be waiting for your entry/ies!
Many thanks to Tom and Maxine from 5th element unearthed, I love the passion you both put into your lives! (I love your sublime extra virgin olive oil too, by the way!)
The theme for this competition came in part from several different people. The initial idea that led to the theme of 'My Passion', came from an idea from a wanna be politician. This person suggested 'Sport' as a theme. This was rejected as being too narrow, and not interesting enough to poets. We pride ourselves on having themes for our competitions that are broad enough to appeal to creative people with amazing ideas!
On thinking further on the theme though, and having listened to the heartfelt way the proposer spoke of his passion for his particular sport, the idea of passion crept into the possible mix for the theme for this competition. Creative people are passionate people, with passions for life, for words, for Nature, for life!
So, another conversation, this time with the lovely person involved in supporting our competition for the 2012/2013 year. We spoke of Passion, our passions for life, and so the idea of 'My Passion' came into being, with the promise of support again from the 5th Element Unearthed, if 'My Passion' becomes the theme for the 2013/2014 competition.
This idea was put to members of the Adelaide Plains Chapter and Verse group, and held to be a fine idea, and so the decision was made!
If you have a grand passion in your life and you want to share it with the world, put pen to paper and write it down, then send your entry in! The entry form and guidelines are on the right hand side of this page, copy and paste as required. I'll be waiting for your entry/ies!
Many thanks to Tom and Maxine from 5th element unearthed, I love the passion you both put into your lives! (I love your sublime extra virgin olive oil too, by the way!)
Thursday, April 25, 2013
A big oops
I've just accidentally deleted lots of comments on this blog. If you've left a comment here and it's disappeared, please feel free to post it here again. Sorry!
Sunday, April 7, 2013
NaWriPoMo - I'm doing this, are you doing it too?
For many people, April is National Poetry Month. It happens in America, but others around the world get involved too. I've signed up too, and so have quite a few of my poet friends. So what am I talking about? What have we signed up to do?
Well, we've joined NaWriPoMo - National Write Poem Month, where we will endeavour to write a poem every single day for the month of April. I'm posting my poems to another blog (when I get the right blog, it's this one here I've gotten a little mixed up though and posted two of the poems to another of my blogs - this one here I'm hoping I've got my head screwed on right now, and I won't get mixed up like that again!
I'm enjoying this month, having to write a new poem every day is a joy, not a chore. In fact, today I wrote the poem quite early in the day, and I've just written another one - two poems in one day, and not rubbish poems either.
What I'll do perhaps is just hold onto this afternoon's poem, and post it the the Garden Dog blog tomorrow. It's going to be a busy day tomorrow, and I mightn't have time spare for poem writing. I have noticed though, that poems are creeping up on me and appearing much more easily than at other times.
I'm very much enjoying this month of poetry, and I hope lots of others out there are enjoying it too!
Well, we've joined NaWriPoMo - National Write Poem Month, where we will endeavour to write a poem every single day for the month of April. I'm posting my poems to another blog (when I get the right blog, it's this one here I've gotten a little mixed up though and posted two of the poems to another of my blogs - this one here I'm hoping I've got my head screwed on right now, and I won't get mixed up like that again!
I'm enjoying this month, having to write a new poem every day is a joy, not a chore. In fact, today I wrote the poem quite early in the day, and I've just written another one - two poems in one day, and not rubbish poems either.
What I'll do perhaps is just hold onto this afternoon's poem, and post it the the Garden Dog blog tomorrow. It's going to be a busy day tomorrow, and I mightn't have time spare for poem writing. I have noticed though, that poems are creeping up on me and appearing much more easily than at other times.
I'm very much enjoying this month of poetry, and I hope lots of others out there are enjoying it too!
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