Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire Cultural Trust have opened the Hampshire Young Poets Competition 2023 for submissions.
This year the theme is ‘home’ and aspiring young poets, living or studying in Hampshire, are invited to write a poem of no more than 14 lines exploring what ‘home’ means to them.
Entries will be judged by Hampshire Poet Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, and the winners will be celebrated at a special ceremony at The ARC, Winchester as part of Winchester Poetry Festival in October of this year.
Nazneen says: “Home is a rich and wonderful theme for poetry and it’s a brilliant focus for this year’s Young Poets competition. Whether it’s thinking about our own homes, families, and the places that matter to us, making people feel at home in our community, thinking about those who don’t have homes, or those who have to move from one place to another to make a new home – there’s just so much inspiration in this theme for poetry that matters. I can’t wait to read all the contributions!”
There are three age categories (4-7 years, 8-11 years, 12-16 years) with National Book Tokens as prizes for the winners in each category. These prizes are matched in P&G Wells books tokens for the winners school, with the first prize schools vouchers being sponsored by P&G Wells.
Hampshire Young Poets competition is free to enter, and closes on July 31 2023.
Poems can be submitted by email or by post. Further details, including how to enter can be found here: https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/young-poets-competition
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