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Essay Competition Winners 2025

Win a Copy of the 'Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook'

Celebrating the poetry competition launch, we also have three copies of the Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook: A Practical Guide to Getting Your Poetry Noticed, Published and Performed by Sophia Blackwell, to give away.

The book provides a clear and up-to-date picture of what poets should focus on at different stages in their career. It explores questions such as what kind of publishing model would work best for you and how can you promote your work and get it reviewed, plus detailed information on printing and distribution, marketing and publicity, and submission to editors, reviewers and prizes, as well as up-to-date contacts for funding organisations, prizes, publishers and magazines.

Author Sophia Blackwell is a performance and page poet. Her collection The Other Woman was nominated for the Polari Prize. She is a former Chair of Poetry London.

To be in with a chance of winning a copy, send your name and which u3a you belong to by post to u3a Office, Third Age Trust, 156 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8EN, marking the envelope ‘Poetry Competition’.

 

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