Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire Cultural Trust are working together to find the top young poets in Hampshire in the Hampshire Young Poets Competition 2024. This year’s theme is ‘Our world, our planet’ and young people from across Hampshire are asked to write a poem of no more than 14 lines on this theme. Whether it’s a favourite place in the world to be or thoughts on climate change, we want to hear from young people across the county about what the words mean to them.
Entries are open to young people who live or study in Hampshire in three different age categories; 4-7, 8-11 and 12-16 years. The competition is free to enter and there will be National Book Token prizes for the winners, supported by Paris Smith, matched with P&G Wells book tokens for the schools of the winning entrants to spend on poetry books. The closing date for entries is midnight on Wednesday 31 July 2024 and the poems will be judged by the new Hampshire Poet 2024 (to be announced in Spring)
For more information and further details on how to submit entries please see: https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/young-poets-competition