THE TITCHFIELD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL POETRY CONTEST FIRST PRIZE £150 SECOND PRIZE £50 THIRD PRIZE £25 Plus various runners up prizes To celebrate this season’s TFT Shakespeare Festival, Titchfield Festival Theatre, with the support of Northam Books, would like to show its gratitude to poetry and poets by staging a Poetry Contest and offering generous prizes including £150 for the winning entry! We invite you to submit a poem inspired by any theme arising from any of the Shakespeare plays performed by TFT this summer: THE TEMPEST TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA RICHARD III AS YOU LIKE IT Just choose one theme from any of these four plays, write an excellent poem based on that theme, with a BRIEF introduction saying which play inspired the theme, and enter the contest! For example, some of the themes in The Tempest that might inspire poets include storms at sea, family relationships, colonialism, drunkenness, first love, “The Great Globe itself” and so many more! Entry to the contest is free! The winning poems and runners up will be announced and performed by either the poets themselves or TFT players (the choice is yours) on a very special Gala Night, on Sunday 29th September at 7.00 pm at the Great Barn itself (Mill Lane, Titchfield, PO15 5RB)! The deadline for submitting poems to this competition is September 8th 2013. All poems will be sent anonymously to the judging committee to ensure fairness. Email your entries to Georgie Gulliford, PRO: georgie.gulliford@titchfieldfestivaltheatre or post your entries to: Georgie Gulliford c/o Titchfield Festival Theatre St Margaret’s Arts 73 St Margaret’s Lane Titchfield Hampshire PO14 4BG All entrants will receive confirmation that their poem has been received. Good luck! jpfgoodman.wordpress/2013/07/12/new-poetry-contest-first-prize-150/
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:34:46 +0000