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Enter our competition!

Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat and writing.ie are once again joining forces to sponsor a writing competition, this time for poets. 

The winning poet will receive a place in the one-week residential retreat Speaking in Pictures: A Poetry Writing Workshop Concerning Visual Art, conducted by Susan Rich.

For a description of the workshop, go to Anam Cara's website; to learn more about Susan Rich, go to: http://poet.susanrich.net/ or read her article right here on writing.ie revealing exactly how your poetry can benefit from revision in It's Not What You Write, It's How You Re-write

This competition is for previously unpublished poems, no longer than 14 lines, inspired by I and the Village a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall, currently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

To submit, email you poem, including your name, postal address, and telephone number to Sue Booth Forbes: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The deadline is  Midnight in Ireland, 29 May 2012
 
The winner will be announced for Bloomsday, 16 June 2012.  An all-poet panel of judges will select the short list, from which Susan Rich will select the winning poem. 

The short list and the winning poem will be posted right here on www.writing.ie and Anam Cara's website at http://www.anamcararetreat.com/anam-cara-competitions.html.