E H P Barnards Spring Poetry Award

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Deadlines and prizes

Opens 1 January 2025, Closes 31 March 2025 (midnight)
Announcements: Shortlist & Winners Sunday 25 May 2025

For poems up to 400 words.

1st Prize – £150
+ a poem video, professionally performed, produced and promoted.
2nd Prize – £100
3rd Prize – £50

Entry fee – £2 per poem

 

About the competition

Tom Neill is the founder and administrator of the competition. He works throughout the UK as a music composer, actor, writer and theatre director, for companies including Opera North, Alleyne Dance, 101 Outdoor Arts and Blackeyed Theatre. His recent work includes composing music for BAFTA nominated and Grierson Award winning film ‘Mighty Penguins’, writing a new play ‘The Climate Report’, and narrating the revival of Stan Tracey/Dylan Thomas’ ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales: Jazz Suite’.

E. H. P. Barnard. “ E. H. P. Barnard was a close family and personal friend who was a kind and supportive presence while I was younger. A next door neighbour who would be with us weekly at church and join our family with her husband for Christmas and other celebrations. She was a liberal lady in the best way, always there when needed, without imposing on others. When she passed over, she left a collection of poems and memories written in to a notebook that I had given her as a birthday present. ” – Tom Neill.

 

See site for how to enter. 

 

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