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Welcome to the
Competition Webpage
Competition
Now Open
Royal London Hospital and Whitechapel Radio established this creative writing
competition for children and young people to offer them opportunities to
express themselves and get involved in wider creative world.
After
the incredible
entries we have received from all you budding artistes in our Mega successful Poster
competition…. We thought we would get your writing skills into action in
WAM4kids amazing, fantabulous
Poetry and Creative Writing competitions.
Not
only do you get a chance to get come down to the station,
be treated a like celeb, take part in a show with a goodie bag
to take away, but You also get the chance to have y our work published
in the an actual magazine called the Poet's letter.
So
what are you waiting for…… Get your Pens
out and unleash your creativity
1.
Poetry Competition
2.
Story
Competition
About the
Competition
This competition
is open all year round. Each month entrants enter the competition and the
judges select three winners every month who would be entered into the
annual competition. End of the year the judges will declare three annual
over all winners. All winning entries will be published in Poet's Letter
Magazine.
The
competition is open between May and April and entries will be judged every
month.
Each
monthly winners (first, second and third) will be announced monthly and
winning entries will be published in Poet’s Letter Magazine.
All
winning entries of all the months will be entered into the Annual Final
Competition and three winners: first, second, third and Merits and
Commendation will be announced at the end of the year.
The
winners would be invited to attend an Awards Ceremony which would include
them reading their works for the Radio.
The
winning works will be published in Poet’s Letter Magazine.
Poetry
Competition
To
enter the Poetry
Competition,
write a maximum of 15 lines of poetry – on any topic you
like….. but focus on things that make you happy…..
Story Competition
To
enter the Story Writing
Competition
You
have to write a short story on any of the topics listed below:
Fantasy
– take the reader to a fantasy
world….
Where
anything can happen…. ( no more that a side of a4)
Tell
US about something amazing
that has happened to you
Tell
us about your dream day and …
Categories
There
are 4 categories for this competition:
Under
9
9-12
13-16
Rules
- Entries
must be original and written in English
- Must
come in before the deadline of each month (20th of each
month so that monthly winners could be decided and announced on the
first of the following month.)
- Entries
must be accompanied by a signed consent form by
parents/guardians/teachers
- By
entering the competition the entrants give consent to observe the
terms and conditions of the Competition which include the permission
to publish the winning entries in whatever form or format we deem
necessary.
- The
decisions of the judges are final and no correspondence will be
entered into with regards to these decisions.
- Judges
may not be contacted regarding any entries or any enquiries regarding
entering or any other matter.
Deadlines
20th of each month
How to Enter
Where
to send your entries:
Send
the entries with the title, your name, address,
parents/guardians/carers/teachers name, email address and telephone number
to
Postal
Entries to be sent to:
Creative Writing Competition
Whitechapel AM
The Royal London Hospital
Whitechapel
London
E1 1BB
Email Entries
Or
you may want to send your entries via email:
competition
at whitechapelam dot org dot uk
(This
helps us fight spams!)
Judges
Munayem
Mayenin
 Munayem
Mayenin, a poet, author and editor and publisher of Poet’s Letter
Magazine. Mayenin’s collections include Poetica Rainbow Ryder, The
Geography of Time, The Son of Eternity and Command the Moon. He is the
author of 18 other poetry collections in addition to his Philosophical
works: Dehumanisation of Humanity (four volumes), Psychology of Zooman and
The Theory of the Universe (to be published). Mayenin is the founder of
London Poetry Festival, London Poetry Books Festival, Beowulf Poetry Prize
and Poet’s Letter Books. Mayenin writes for children’s too as well as
writing all other genres of creative writing. Mayenin hosts, reads and has
founded Poet’s Letter Poetry Performance and Live Music Series in Covent
Garden Poetry Café (2005). He writes songs too.
He
edited Poet’s Letter Poetry Anthology of New Voices 2005, co-edited
Slivers: An Anthology of South Asian Poetry in Britain, 1997. Mayenin read
at First Prague Poetry International Poetry Festival 2004, presented a
Philosophical paper at Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference at New
School University, New York 2005. Mayenin has been translated into Spanish
and Mongolian.
He
worked as a civil servant serving education, adult education and informal
education, mother tongue and supplementary education, and Social Services.
He spent a few years involved in teaching Bangla language and literature
& Sylheti at SOAS, University of Westminster, Newham & Tower
Hamlets Adult Education. For more visit www.poetsletter.com
Sarah
Wardle
Born in London (1969) Sarah Wardle studied Classics
at Oxford and English at Sussex ending up writing poetry for which her
first collection Fields Away got shortlisted for 2003 Forward Prize for
Best First Collection.
Sarah lives near Rye in East Sussex and teaches at
Middlesex and Kent Universities.
She won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, Poetry Review's
New Poet of the Year Award, in 1999. A selection of her poems appeared in
Anvil New Poets 3 in 2001.
Her second collection, Score is a product of her
Residency at Tottenham Hotspur FC. For more on Sarah Wardle visit www.poetsletter.com
or www.bloodaxebooks.com
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