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Time is running out

Time is running out, there are now only hours left until the closing date of the 2007 Cardiff International Poetry Competition. So if you think you have what it takes to win the top prize of £5000 for just one poem then enter now. Additional prizes of £500 for second place, £250 for third and five runners up prizes of £50 are also available.

Judging the 2007 competition is 2005 Wales Book of the Year winner Owen Sheers, 2004 Forward Prize winner Kathleen Jamie and previous Cardiff International Poetry Competition winner Tiffany Atkinson will act as filter judge.

 Click here to download your entry form in seconds.

Alternatively to get a form sent right to your door send a SAE to: CIPC07, Academi, Mount Stuart House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, CF10 5FQ.

Remember this is a truly international competition you do not have to have been born in or resident in Wales to enter. We have received entries from all over the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.

Don’t forget we can only accept entries by post and with the correct fee so if you are posting from abroad leave plenty of time to make the closing date.

The Cardiff International Poetry Competition deadline for poems is Friday 26 January 2007.   

The winners will be announced during the first week of May 2007. So keep an eye on the Academi website.