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Fourth Annual James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Competition

CLOSING DATE: 30th December 2012

1st prize: publication of a 28-page pamphlet

Winner receives 50 free copies

Judges: Anne Connolly, Elizabeth Rimmer

Rules

Entry fee is £5 via PayPal or cheque; you may enter up to 4 poems.
Poems may be up to 40 lines on any subject.
You must be over 18 years of age.
Your poem should be typed on one side of A4 paper.
No alterations may be made once an entry has been submitted.
Your entry will not be returned to you.
Poems must be in English (or English dialect).
Poems must not have won or be under consideration in other poetry competitions.
Poems must not be a translation of another poet’s work.
Anyone published/ scheduled to be published by Red Squirrel Press is not eligible to enter.
Red Squirrel Press regrets entries by email will NOT be accepted.

Please send entries to:

James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Competition
Red Squirrel Press
Briery Hill Cottage
Stannington
Morpeth, Northumberland
NE61 6ES
United Kingdom

The fee for each entry of up to 4 poems is £5:

This can be paid by cheque, made payable to Red Squirrel Press Ltd.

Alternatively, you may pay your entry fee with your credit/debit card. We use PayPal to process online payments, but you don’t need a PayPal account to pay this way, though if you have one you can use that.

Click to pay with your credit or debit card.

Just press the button above and you will be taken to the PayPal website to make the payment. PayPal will email you a receipt – this will have the subject line Receipt for Your Payment to Red Squirrel Press. Just print this off and enclose it with your entry as proof of payment (it will not include any of your card details).

If you do not have a printer, carefully copy out the Transaction ID, which is the long string of letters and numbers at the top of the Payment Details, and include that in a covering note.