Archives for: 2009

14/01/09

Permalink 03:34:23 pm, 186 words, 993 views   English (UK)
Categories: Open Contests

SPRING FEVER POETRY CONTEST

Spring is just around the corner, well perhaps it’s still a few bends away, but to help it along our annual Spring Fever poetry competition has been revamped and will definitely cheer you up during these last dismal days of winter!

=> Read more!

  • Currently 2.50/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • i

04/04/09

Permalink 05:00:02 pm, 304 words, 1912 views   English (UK)
Categories: Open Contests

THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING!

But are they changing for the better? If you think not here’s you chance to sing out in protest! Our latest open competition is a first for us as we’re dipping our toes into the song writing waters! Doing Dylan picks up the torch of lyrical dissent first raised by the young Pied Piper of Pop of the sixties!

=> Read more!

  • Currently 2.74/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • i

11/02/09

Permalink 10:42:17 am, 103 words, 606 views   English (UK)
Categories: Arena Contests

LIT TRIPS – Latest Arena Contest

Our latest Arena competition is a great opportunity for arm chair travellers! We’re looking for literary journeys of up to 300 words. Your journey can be anything from a Shakespearean walk around Stratford to a leisurely drift down the Mississippi in the wake of Tom and Huck!

=> Read more!

  • Currently 2.88/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • i

11/01/09

Permalink 02:27:56 pm, 167 words, 373 views   English (UK)
Categories: Arena Contests

PITS & CRYPTS – Latest Arena Poetry contest

Two hundred years ago this January, Edgar Allan Poe, maestro of the macabre, was born to a couple of impoverished actors. In spite of this inauspicious start or perhaps because of it, he went on to write a whole raft of chilling horror stories and poems which still hold the power to terrify readers and inspire erstwhile horror writers.

To celebrate his penchant for unholy terror, our Arena contest this month calls for a 12 line horror poem either set in a crypt or featuring the denizens of the underworld!

=> Read more!

  • Currently 2.80/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • i

05/01/09

Permalink 10:46:21 am, 134 words, 380 views   English (UK)
Categories: Arena Contests

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT – PIPPIN WINS YULE SING ME ONE SONG

Our annual festive song writing contest produced a fine crop of entries which caused our judge, musician and song writer, Julie Holland a lot of head scratching as the quality was so high.

=> Read more!

  • Currently 2.71/5
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • i