The Sheptons Snowdrops Poetry Competitions 2025 is currently open for submission. The cash prizes are more than $400. Interested poets are invited.
Sheptons Snowdrops Poetry Competition 2025
The Sheptons Snowdrops Poetry Competitions 2025 is currently open for submission. The cash prizes are more than $400. Interested poets are invited to submit their best poems.
Theme of Sheptons Snowdrops Poetry Competitions 2025
TREASURES OF NATURE
The prize giving ceremony for the Poetry competition will take place in the Baptist Church, Commercial Road, Shepton Mallet, BA4 5BU, on Saturday 22th February 2025 at 2pm.
Prizes for the 3 Categories for the Sheptons Snowdrops Poetry Competitions 2025
18 & Over – £300
12 to 17 – £100
11 & Under – £50
Rules of Entry for Sheptons Snowdrops Poetry Competitions 2025
- All entries are accepted in good faith
- The poems must be your own original work and not have been published before or currently entered in any other competition
- We want to read poems created from your own imaginations and hard work, please do not use AI in any way to generate your poems
- Copyright remains with you but we reserve the right to reproduce the poems in print and digital form to publicise and promote the competition and the Festival
- No single piece of work, or entrant can win more than one prize
- Your poem(s) must be no more than 30 lines long
- Entrants agree to indemnify the judges, organisers, and any other related parties against any litigation that may arise should the poems entered not have the necessary permission to be published
- We reserve the right to update and amend these rules at any time, but only if necessary; any changes will be posted on this website
- The judge’s decision is final.
How To Enter
- The entry fee is £4 per poem for age ’18 & Over’, and free of charge for under 18s
- Over 18s can submit up to five poems, under 18s one poem
- Entrants can enter poems from any country in the world, but they must be written in English.
- You can write your poems in any format – haiku, sonnet, blank verse etc., but they must be relevant to the theme. The organisers reserve the right to disqualify any entries they consider to be not relevant to the theme.
- Registration, entry and any payment due must be completed online through our official competition platform Skor.ie
- Poems are now entered as text on the website, rather than as a file. You can format your text once it has been entered
- The competition is judged anonymously, so please don’t add your name, address or any other identifier to your poem
- Your entry should have a unique title and your initials in the filename e.g. “Morning Splendour – AS”
- Deadline for entry is 11pm on Monday 6 January 2025.
- Registration, entry and any payment due must be completed online through our official competition platform Skor.ie
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