Rules
Closing date for receipt of entries: 15th January 2025
Maximum length 14 lines.
Entries should be in English, typed or submitted online in Word or PDF format, and fit on a single A4 page.
Please DO NOT write your name, age or residency on the same sheet as your poems, as they will be judged anonymously.
The prize is open to anyone except those involved in organising the competition. Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any public website or broadcast, nor winning or placed in any other competition, as of 9th March 2025. You may send as many entries as you like. Payments must be made by cheque, postal order, or online. Cheques should be from a UK bank and made payable to ‘GLF - Poems on the Move’ with the sender’s name and address on the back.
Enter each poem (with title) on an individual page. Separately, enter online in the spaces provided (or enclose) your name, address, telephone number, email address, plus the title(s) of your poems. Winners will be contacted by 9th March 2025. Winning poems will be rotated on Guernsey buses. The top nine poems will become part of a second roving exhibition, for no less than six months. Entry fees are non-refundable. All prize money will be paid in sterling.
Contact us
Poems on the Move
Guernsey Literary Festival,
PO Box 174,
St Peter Port,
Guernsey,
Channel Islands,
UK, GY1 3LG
Tel: +44 (0)7781 163545