Archives for: January 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!

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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!

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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.

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