THE INVITATION
The Poetry Trust invites you to enter poems on any subject in next year’s Suffolk Young Poets Competition.
Entries are judged in the following age groups:
11 years & under  • 12 – 19 years

THE RULES
• Open to all young poets living in Suffolk or attending a Suffolk school in 2008-2009
• Poems may be typed or hand-written
• Each poem should begin on a separate page
• Writer’s name, age (on 31 July 2008), and home or school address must be on each page
• A maximum of three poems per entrant
• Poems cannot be returned so please keep copies
• Entries to be sent to: The Poetry Trust, The Cut, 9 New Cut, Halesworth IP19 8BY

THE PRIZES
The successful writers will receive their prizes and perform their winning poems alongside a top children's write at the 20th Aldeburgh Poetry Festival on Friday October 31 2008.
A maximum of fifteen £20 book tokens will be awarded as prizes divided between the two age groups at the judges’ discretion.
The Suffolk Poetry Society will make the annual award of the Hardiman Scott Cup to the school with the strongest overall entry.
The prizewinning poems and a selection of other highly commended poems will be featured on The Poetry Trust website and will be published in the East Anglian Daily Times.