Opportunity Knocks!

Hi everyone,

I want to alert members to a forthcoming and prestigious poetry competition.  It's a collaboration between the RSPB and The Rialto magazine based on the theme 'Nature'.

The cost of entry is £6 for a single submission with subsequent submissions costing £3 each thereafter.  A maximum of six poems are allowed in any one batch per individual entrant.

Generous cash prizes are on offer with £1000 for the winner, £500 for the runner-up and a place on a creative writing workshop also worth £500 for the competitor coming third.  The wining entrants' work will also be showcased in The Rialto.

Simon Armitage is the judge.

As usual the brief can be loosely interpreted.  More information can be found here:

http://www.therialto.co.uk/pages

There are lots of fantastic poets on ABCtales.  Wouldn't it be great to see a few get involved with this and who knows, one of you might even end up on the podium!

Good luck to those who decide to have a go.