The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2010
If you are between 11 and 17 years of age you might like to enter the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Award.
Now in its 13th year, the FYP award is now firmly established as the key award for young writers. Each year 100 winners (15 overall winners and 85 commendations) are selected by a team of high profile judges – this year to include acclaimed poet Jane Draycott, and young poet and short story writer, Luke Kennard – to receive their awards at a prize-giving event on National Poetry Day.
You can write about whatever you want to, so you can enter poems written in class or at home, from exercises or from your own imagination – it’s up to you. The poems can be on any theme, of any length, and in any shape or form you like. Entry is free and you can enter as many poems as you like, though the organisers do advise that you draft and re-draft your poems and concentrate on quality rather than quantity.
You do, however, need to be under 18 years old on the closing date, which is 31st July 2010.
Prizes are too numerous to be listed here, but include prizes specifically for schools, and for individuals - books, publication for the winners, residential courses, and opportunities for performances and internships. In addition, all 100 winners will be invited to the prize-giving ceremony, and will receive a year’s youth membership of the Poetry Society.
You can download an entry form and enter by post, or you can enter online at the web address below. You can also read poems by past winners or order their anthology. Teachers can also download a class entry form there, as well as finding many resources especially for teachers relating to the FYP competition.
Visit the website for full rules and regulations, and for more details of the competition.
