Sentinel Literary Quarterly
Poetry Competition
Closing Date 20-Sept-2011
Competition Details
Poems may be on any subject or style and MUST NOT have been previously published, or posted on a website or blog. Poems posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Poems must also not be under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Length: Maximum 40 lines per poemEntry Fees: £3.00 for 1 poem, £12.00 for 5 poems. (You may enter as many poems as you wish – with the appropriate fees.
Prizes: First: £150.00, Second: £75.00, Third: £50.00, Highly Commended: £10 x 3.
First Publication: The three winning poems, three highly commended poems, plus nine other poems (15 poems in total) will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions magazine in print and eBook in May 2012.
Entries Deadline: 20th September, 2011
Results due: 31st October, 2011 announced in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online at: http://www.sentinelquarterly.com
Judge: TODD SWIFT,
Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement
Enter online or by post
Todd Swift is a widely-known poet, critic and cultural organiser. He is a lecturer at Kingston University in English Literature and Creative Writing and a tutor for The Poetry School. He has published six full collections of poetry, including Seaway: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2008) and Mainstream Love Hotel (Tall-lighthouse, 2009), and a free-to-download ebook from Argotist, Experimental Sex Hospital. Todd has edited or co-edited many international anthologies, including Poetry Nation, 100 Poets Against The War, and (with Evan Jones) Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010). In 2007 he and Jason Camlot published their collection of essays on contemporary Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts (Vehicule).
Todd has edited special sections on Canadian Poetry for New American Writing and London Magazine; and on British and Scottish Poets for The Manhattan Review. He and Camlot edited a special section on Anglo-Quebec poets for Jacket; and Todd recently blogged on The Young British Poets for The Best American Poetry blog.
His poems have also appeared widely, in places such as Poetry, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Jacket, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail. His poems have been broadcast on radio around the world - on the ABC, BBC, CBC, and RTE.
Online Entries
Postal Entries
International/Online entrants may enter by e-mail and pay entry fees securely by Paypal. To enter by this method please follow these steps:
Select the option that matches your entry preference from the paypal drop-down button below and make the applicable payment.
After making your payment, you will be given a Transaction ID or Receipt Number by Paypal. Make a note of the Transaction ID.Submit your poems and a cover note with your Name, E-mail Address, Postal Address, Telephone Number and Titles of your poems to: competitions@sentinelpoetry.org.uk as a Word or rtf attachment. In the subject line, type SLQ POETRY OCT 2011 Followed by your Transaction ID. You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of poems within 48 hours.
To enter by post, please download and print out the competition entry form here>
or
Submit your poems with a Typed Cover Note titled
SLQ POETRY OCTOBER 2011 The cover note should include your Name, E-mail Address, Postal Address, Telephone Number and Titles of your poems
Send the Entry Form or Cover Note together with your poems and the applicable fees (GB£ cheques or postal orders only) payable to SENTINEL POETRY MOVEMENT to:
Sentinel Poetry Movement
Unit 136
113 – 115 George Lane
London
E18 1AB
United Kingdom
Terms & Conditions/Privacy Policy:
You may enter as many poems as you wish with the appropriate entry fees.
If you win one of the prizes in this quarter’s competition, you will NOT be prohibited from entering next quarter’s competition.
Judges read the poems without any indication of the identity of the authors. If the same poet wins more than one prize, in the interest of fairness we WILL award it.
The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into.
If on the advice of the judge, the quality of entries is too low to produce worthy prize winners, or any other legitimate reason beyond our control arises which may affect a fair completion or conduct of the competition, we reserve the right to cancel the competition and refund all entry fees immediately by the same method we have been paid.
We reserve the right to reapportion the prize money if necessary in the interest of continuity as an alternative to cancellation of the competition.
If you would like an acknowledgement of postal entries, please enclose an SAE marked “acknowledgement”.
The Judge’s Report will be published in Sentinel Literary Quarterly on 31st October, 2011. This publication is online, at www.sentinelquarterly.com if you would like to receive the Judges’ Report in the post, please enclose an SAE marked “Judges’ Report SLQ Poetry October 2011”.
All prizewinners will be notified by post or e-mail within 7 days of the announcement of the results. These notifications will be accompanied with a prize claim invoice.
By entering this competition you provide some information such as your address and e-mail address which may be deemed personal information. These will be processed according to the data protection act 1998. We will never pass on any detail you provide in the course of entering this competition to a third party and we will never sell your data to anyone for marketing purposes.
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*Online entries must be received by midnight on the 20th September 2011. Postal entries must be post-marked by 20th September, 2011. E&OE | SLQ
