To be judged by Antony Dunn

 

Prizes:

Winner: £200

2nd Prize: £50.00

3rd Prize: £25.00

 

 

The winner, runners-up, highly commended poets, and those who make the longlist will be published in our poetry anthology, WHIRLAGUST V.

The winner, runners-up and those on the long-list, will be announced on 8th April 2025

 

ENTRY FEE:

£6 for one poem

£13 for 3 poems

£20 f0r 6 poems

You are allowed to enter as many times as you want.

 

We look forward to reading your work.

Yaffle Team

 

Sole Judge

Antony Dunn 

Antony Dunn has been a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School for over twenty years and has published four collections of poetry, most recently Take This One to Bed (Valley Press). He has worked on a number of translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and Israel, and has been Artistic Director of Bridlington Poetry Festival and Poet in Residence at the University of York, Ilkley Literature Festival and the People Powered Press.He lives in Leeds.

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The prize is open to any poet in the world who is over 18 years of age writing in English.

Competition Rules

1. Closing date for receipt of entries: 8th March 2025 (Midnight GMT).

2. The maximum length for each poem is 40 lines excluding the title. Breaks between stanzas do not count towards the total.

3. Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any website or recorded (poems read at open mics are OK as long as they were not recorded). No posthumous or AI generated entries please.

4. Entries must be in English and we will not be accepting translations of poetry.

5. Each poem should be sent as a separate word document. The name of each document should be the name of the poem it contains and have no identifying marks other than the title on either the page or in the document name.

6. Font should be Georgia (or similar) 12 point. Pages should not be numbered, there should be no colour, pictures or borders and no explanatory notes.

7. Online entries – Pay online using PayPal. Your covering email should include: your name and address, and the titles of your poems. The title of your email should be Yaffle Prize,  your name and PayPal transaction number eg: John Smith 9PO79127H87167P.

8. Send your poems to: yafflecompetition[at]gmail[dot]com

9. No corrections can be made after receipt, nor fees refunded.

10. Worldwide copyright of poems remains with the author, but Yaffle will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning poems on its website, in competition publicity and in the resulting anthology.

11. The judge’s decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.

Entry implies acceptance of the rules. Failure to comply with entry requirements will result in disqualification.

Receipt: Yaffle will acknowledge all entries, if you do not see acknowledgement please check your spam filter – adding our email address to your contacts should prevent this happening.

Results: Winners will be notified by email by 8th April 2025

Results will be published on our website and social media

The Zoom Prizewinning event take place in Summer 2025.

 

Please pay for your entry using the PayPal email yafflecompetition@gmail.com