The Strokestown International Poetry Competition is open for entries to its 2016 prize.
The annual contest, which is part of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival which will take place from 29 April to 1 May in Roscommon, has a first prize of €1,500, a second prize of €500, a third prize of €300 and prizes of €100 for three further shortlisted poets. Poems may be entered in any style and on any subject, and at any length up to seventy lines. All poems must be original and unpublished.
Entries should be clearly typed on single sides of A4. Submit entries through the website as doc, docx, pdf or rtf files.