Free contest, Hogmanay Haiku Competition, top prize: £111

Deadline: 10 December 2010

We want you to write a Haiku (a short, naturalistic form of Japanese poetry, which emphasises a sense of immediacy and connection with nature) on the theme of resolution, hope, renewal and looking forward as the year shifts towards the new. Haikus are traditionally 17 syllables in a form of three lines 5/7/5 (they can be shorter, but no longer).

The author of the winning haiku will receive a fee of £111.00. Entries should be emailed to haiku@edinburghshogmanay.com before Friday, 10 December

Judging Panel: Catherine Lockerbie, Founding Trustee of Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature; Robyn Marsack, Director, Scottish Poetry Library; Pete Irvine, Producer, Edinburgh's Hogmanay; Stuart Kelly, Literary Editor, Scotland on Sunday

More information here.