[Sylvia Fairley]

Advice, please! I've only entered the Oldie comp once. Do they allow more than one entry? If so, how does one go about it? Does it have to be pseudonyms? False addresses? Or can one just send two entries?

[Ann Drysdale]

I'd be interested to know that, too.

I've never done a doubler but my guess is you just send two.

Jayne will know.

[Jayne Osborn]

There's no limit to the number of entries you can submit, but you won't win twice under the same name... at least it hasn't happened yet!

Don't use false addresses. If you do submit multiple entries it's a good idea to use the real name and address of a relative or friend who will receive the cheque and then give you the money. That way you can win more than once, as they won't know who's who!

Jayne

[Sylvia Fairley]

Oh, thanks, Jayne. I'm not bothered about winning twice - just want to increase my limited chances of winning at all!

[Brian Allgar]

I once phoned them on this point, and was assured by the young lady that sending multiple entries using pseudonyms was fine. "And is it all right to use the name and address of a friend?" I asked. "Well", she said, with charming ingenuousness, "We'd never know, would we?"

[John Whitworth]

What I (sometimes) do is submit them all under my own name but give another, say Phoebe Flood or Fergus Pickering to use if circumstances dictate. Actually I don't think I ever have won twice. But Bazza, Bill and Brian do it all the time.

[Jayne Osborn]

I've always assumed that those who won twice used different names and addresses - as opposed to submitting multiple entries and offering pseudonyms, as John does - so Tessa doesn't know they're the same person.

Bazza, Bill and Brian might disabuse me of this notion... or not.

Jayne

[John Whitworth]

Surely everybody knows Bazza is at least three persons. Still, pehaps I ought to use different addresses. But what a business!

Anyway they all come from the same computer and from the same email address. Would I need multiple email addressses and multiple computers?

[Jayne Osborn]

Anyway they all come from the same computer and from the same email address. Would I need multiple email addresses and multiple computers?

No, John, I'd suggest that if you submit as ''Someone Else'', you simply email your poem to that person and they submit it - just as if they had in fact written the poem themselves! (Get your sister to do it, perhaps.)

Tessa gets a poem with a real name, a real email address and a real postal address. You get the kudos when you reveal that "Josephine Bloggs", or whoever, is in fact you.

Jayne

[John Whitworth]

Do you know, Jayne, I think you might be right?