The
Have
Your Poem Published Competition
Yes!
This is your chance to have your poem published in a new Macmillan
Children's book. The book will feature a poem
for every day of the year on the theme of SCHOOL!!!
Macmillan
are looking for at least TEN poems written by children or teenagers!
So if you think you can write a poem about
school and would like to see it published THIS
IS YOUR CHANCE!!!
Poems
can be about the start and end of each term, about holidays, school
trips, visiting authors, playtime, lessons, lunch, teachers, dinner
ladies, the head teacher, friends, the school itself, special days
(such as science day, Roman day, sports day), after school and lunchtime
clubs, poems about all the individual school subjects, poems from
the point of view of both teachers and pupils, and from the point
of view of the school cat, ghost, hall, and so on...
Poems
can be long, short, funny, serious or sad and written in any style;
haiku, tanka, free verse, rhyming, non-rhyming... it's up to you!
The best
ten poems will appear in the book due to be published in July 2009.
Make sure you include a contact address
with your poem and your age. If your poem is chosen
you will be sent a permissions form for your parent or guardian
to sign. The best of the rest of the poems will be published here.
Send
your poems by 18th July, 2008, to
teacher@pzone.freeserve.co.uk
Good
Luck!!!
Rules
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Rules
1
Send your school poem to teacher@pzone.freeserve.co.uk
2 Send poem in body of the e-mail not as a file or
attachment 3 Remember to give your name, age and a contact
address (No addresses will be published in The Poetry Zone.) 4
The Competition will be judged by Macmillan Children's Books 5
The competition is open worldwide (written in English) for children
or teenagers between the ages of 4 and 18. 6 Closing date
for the competition is July 18th 2008 7 The winners and poems
from the runners up, will be published in The Poetry Zone later
this year 8 Poems MUST be your own, original work.
