Entry Open for Young People's Poetry Competition 2024
Fourteenth year for Chiswick Book Festival event
2023 Chiswick Book Festival Poetry Competition winners
May 3, 2024
The Chiswick Book Festival Young People's Poetry Competition 2024 opened this week for entries.
It’s been fourteen years since the competition, sponsored by ChiswickW4.com, was started and it’s still going strong. Children and young people join in from schools across the London area (and sometimes beyond). Winners will be invited to a prize-giving at the start of the 2024 Chiswick Book Festival, on 13 Friday September. Prizes are given within each year group, meaning children and young people are judged within their peer group.
Previous poets, writers and artists giving out the prizes, and often sharing some fascinating writing secrets, have included Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE, Cressida Cowell MBE, the poet Roger McGough, actor and novelist Kevin McNally, radio presenter and children’s author Simon Mayo and, last year, screenwriter and novelist, Daisy Goodwin. Inspiring stuff!
The competition is open to all children and young people in Years 3-7 and the deadline for entries is Saturday 8 June 2024.
With the Bank Holiday here, it's the perfect opportunity to start writing. Young poets can write about anything that inspires them. But we also have two themes to stir their imaginations, should they wish: 'Hope' or 'Home'.
Only one poem can be entered per child. You can enter by post or email.
Entries must be in English and the entrant’s own original work, with strictly no parental or teacher help and all poems must be sent with a completed entry form.
The entry form for schools can be downloaded here and here for individual entries.
You can download a copy of the rules here.
So, what are you waiting for?
The 16th Chiswick Book Festival will take place from 11- 18 September 2024. For programme details and updates, visit the festival’s web site.
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