William Soutar Writing Prize 2011
This is an annual competition now in its ninth year, alternating between poetry and short stories. For 2011, poems may be entered.
Entry is free and open to anyone in the world over the age of 16, but you are limited to two poems.
First Prize An Arvon Writing course at Moniack Mhor (for which the normal fee would be approximately £600), or another of the UK Arvon Centres. The winner will be announced on Writers’ Day, Saturday 26 March 2011, at the AK Bell Library.
Second Prize: £100 Book Tokens
Local Prize: A local prize of £50.00 of Book Tokens will also be awarded for the best work from a resident of Perth and Kinross
The Competition Rules
- The deadline for all entries is Monday 14 February 2011.
- All entrants must be 16 years of age or over.
- Poems must not exceed 40 lines.
- A maximum of two poems may be submitted.
- All entries must be typed or word processed, on one side of the paper only.
- Two copies of each poem submitted must be provided.
- Entries may be in English or Scots.
- The competition is open to anyone throughout and outside the United Kingdom.
- All entries are judged anonymously and the name of the writer must not appear on the manuscript.
- Poems must not have been previously published.
- Competition entries cannot be returned - please do not include a pre-paid envelope.
- The Judge’s decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into.
- Alterations cannot be made to poems once they have been submitted.
- Entries must be accompanied by an entry form (add link to form here).
- There is no entry fee for this competition.
- Local entries (writers living in Perthshire at time of entry) can also be additionally entered for the local Soutar prize. They should tick the LOCAL box on the entry form.
- It is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that the above rules are adhered to.
Failure to comply with the above rules will result in disqualification from the competition.
A shortlist of six will be announced on the website (www.pkc.gov.uk/library) by March 15 2011.
The winner(s) will be notified a few days before the formal announcement on March 26.
Unsuccessful entrants will not be individually notified.
If a local entrant wins one of the main prizes, they will not also be eligible for the local prize.
The winning names will be posted on our website.
The writers of the winning poems grants Perth and Kinross Libraries the right to use the poems in publicity material for one year from 26 March 2011.
The copyright of each poem remains with the author.
William Soutar Writing Prize 2011 Entry Form [PDF: 32Kb]
More information here.
