Buxton Stone
 

The judges are Fleur Adcock and Michael Schmidt. The competition is this one, closing date 1st April so you have to get down to it.

For a full list of rules and all other information please contact claire@buxtonfestival.co.uk for an entry form or download a copy at www.derby.ac.uk/buxtonpoetrycompetition.

Downloading does the trick. I suppose you'll have to use IRCs for this. Spurred on by my efforts to write a monorhyme on 'bears' I've done one on 'stone', which leaves the rest of you plenty of scope do do something else. I think that a competition depends greatly on its judge/judges, and this is a dependable pair, particularly Fleur, one of the best poets living in my opinion. Only three prizes but that leaves two for the rest of you.

If I manage to track down A4 paper in the hinterlands of San Diego, I deserve to win something...

Oh I think if you use the American paper that is nearest in size that will be OK. A4 is 11 3/4 by 8 1/4 or 296mm x 209mm to use beastly foreign measurements. Certainly Americans accept A4. The American paper I've got is a bit fatter and not quite so long.

Drat you, John! There goes my excuse!

John,

Do the entries have to be there by April 1st, or is that the postmark date?

Martin, I dunno, but, from my experience of competitions from the other end, as it were, if your entry arrives WITH MONEY a couple of days adrift, they'll stretch a point. Julie, with your name being what it is, you really don't have any excuse.