Calling All Poets! 🗣️ We are delighted to announce our eighth poetry competition and invite YOU to take part!
This Year’s Theme: Empowering Earth.
Explore the beauty and inspiration found in nature through your poetry. Let your words paint vivid landscapes, capture serene moments, and echo the calls of our wonderful planet.
Supporting a Worthy Cause
All donations from the competition will support our vital conservation work and provide care for injured Owls. Your participation will not only showcase your poetic talent but will also contribute to the preservation of wildlife.
Entries will be accepted from 1st October 2024, with the closing deadline of 31st January 2025. We will announce the winners in our Spring 2025 edition of FeedBack, and produce Volume 8 of our ‘Wildlife Words’ Anthology. There will be a First, Second and Third prize. Six runners up will also receive a certificate of commendation. The competition is open to all writers and there is no entry form required or limit to the number of entries you make. There is a entry donation of £5 per poem. This is a fantastic opportunity to have your work published and read by a wider audience.
- The poem must not exceed forty lines of any style.
- Entries should be in English, typed or neatly handwritten on one side only of A4, and can be submitted via post or email.
- If submitting by email, please send your poem in the main body of the email and not as an attachment. Please remember to include entrant’s name and address.
- If sending by post, entrants should include their name and address on a separate sheet with the title of their poem; there should not be any identifying marks on the poem.
- Poems must be the writer’s own original work, previously unpublished and not currently entered for any other competition.
- BOT cannot make corrections or alterations once poems are submitted.
- The closing date is 31st January 2025, 17:00 and the Judge’s decision is final. Winners will be announced in our Spring 2025 issue of Feedback where the winning poem will be printed.
- Each poem is to be accompanied by a £5 (minimum) donation. Writers can submit multiple poems provided the correct fee is paid (£5 per poem).
- Payment can be made by cheque payable to Barn Owl Trust or via our website.
- Postal entries should be sent to “Poetry Competition” Barn Owl Trust, Waterleat, Ashburton, Devon, TQ13 7HU.
- Send email entries to info@barnowltrust.org.uk with the entry fee of £5 per poem being made via our website www.barnowltrust.org.uk and our “Give a Donation” page (found under the ‘Support us’ heading), stating “Poem” as reason for donation.
**Join us in celebrating nature and making a difference. Submit your poem today!**
Good luck! 🦉