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The Andrew Siderius Memorial Competition: SHORT POETRY COMPETITION

Writers who wish to submit entries for the Friday Flash Poetry competition should use THIS page. Please complete the form (using the Storybox below) for the poems themselves – it's easier to manage editorially and helps us stay in line with data protection legislation.

POEMS SHOULD BE NO LONGER THAN 160 WORDS OR BE LONGER THAN 16 LINES.​
You may enter one short poem only in each of three separate entry windows:

Saturday 13th February at 01.00 to the end of the day, midnight 
UK time, Friday 19th February
Saturday 20th February at 00.00 to the end of the day, midnight UK time, Friday 26th February
Saturday 27th February at 00.00 to the end of the day, midnight UK time, Friday 5th March

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    STORYBOX (for short poems)

    I wish to enter the story below for the Friday Flash Poetry competition.
    Please remember the author's name, and don't CAPITALISE EVERYTHING or include "inverted commas'
    (e.g. The Selkirk Grace, by Robert Burns – please include the appropriate capitals, the comma, spaces and the name you wish to use.)

    Your poem must relate to at least one of these themes.
    Total number of words in your submission, NOT including the title. Our preferred maximum is 100 but we'll consider up to 500. We currently do NOT accept stories of 101-150 words.
    REMINDER: submissions should be reasonably short – see the guidelines opposite. No poem that is either longer than 160 words, or that contains more than 16 lines, will be accepted. Please make sure your wordcount is accurate.
    Please insert your poem into the box below.
    Write story text in here – or copy and paste from your favourite word processor. However please be aware that we can't accept poorly formatted work or work written in poor English, or stories in bad taste. We notify all new stories on Twitter.
    (If you have any special instructions, such as italics, etc, please just add them at the end of the poem. We'll try to accommodate if we can. Please note that formatting of poetry on a website can be extremely challenging, however.)

    This is to assert your copyright, and also to allow us to comply with GDPR regulations, etc..
    For more details, see our page under "GDPR Compliance". There's nothing sinister here, we're just ticking a box, too.
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FLASH FICTION POETRY SUBMISSIONS GUIDANCE
Please read this before submitting
The main reasons why poetry submissions are rejected are:
  • they're too long – usually too many lines. Poems should be little more than a sonnet, although haikus are also accepted;
  • the quality of writing is poor, often from someone unfamiliar with the English language;
  • the judges deem the submission to be prose, not poetry;
  • they're submitted as attachments, such as Word;
  • the stories have appeared elsewhere before;
  • the entry form has been incorrectly completed. 
None of these problems is insoluble.


IN THE WRONG PLACE?
This page is for entries for the Short Poetry Competition, but you might have been looking for one of the other contests. Click on the appropriate button below and hopefully you'll end up in the right place.
Classic 100-Word Contest
Longer Flash Competition

During the competition, we'll still try to answer any problems sent to the email address below, but all submissions must use the Storybox.

submissions@fridayflashfiction.com
To all authors: please note that we never copy and paste from any other site for a number of reasons including copyright. If it isn't submitted directly, it isn't submitted at all. That also applies to stories submitted to LinkedIn or to the FridayFlashFiction blog (see also Our Posting Relationship with Other Sites in the T&Cs).

But we don't claim any sort of exclusive rights here, so feel free to submit your story anywhere else after the results of the competition are in.
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