Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition 2024

Langston Hughes wrote,

Hold fast to dreams 

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Entries are now invited to the ‘Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition 2024’. 13 shortlisted poems will appear in Drawn to the Light Press Issue 13 and the overall winner will receive a cash prize. Please send a single poem of no more than 40 lines (excluding the title) as an attachment to dreamspoetrycomp@gmail.com

Please ensure that your name is not included on the attached poem.

Name and contact details, along with the title of your entry and the PayPal reference number for your entry should be included in the body of the email.

Poems must be previously unpublished.

The competition closes on Sunday, 1st September at midnight.

Poems must be on the theme of ‘dreams’ and we look forward to your interpretations. The judge of the competition is editor Orla Fay. There is a €10 entry fee.

https://drawntothelightpress.com/hold-fast-to-dreams-poetry-competition/

Submissions for Drawn to the Light Press Issue 13 October 2024

The submission period for issue 13, October 2024, opens on Wednesday, 31st July and closes on Saturday, 31st August, at midnight.

The theme for this issue is ‘Halloween’, encompassing all it entails from goblins to ghouls, to the beauty of nature and the dwindling year. Let your imagination free. It will be a supernatural issue 13.

This issue will also contain 13 shortlisted poems from ‘Hold Fast to Dreams Poetry Competition 2024’, please see the entry page here

Send no more than 3 previously unpublished poems using Times New Roman 12 and single spacing. Include a short bio of 50 words or less, and written in the third person.

Submissions of art and photography on the same theme are invited.

Entrants must be 18 and over.

Send all entries to orla.a.fay@gmail.com

https://drawntothelightpress.com/submissions/