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Entries are invited for Flarestack Poets Pamphlet Competition, 2012.

Two winners' pamphlets will be published in late spring 2012. Each will receive £300 and 20 copies of their winning pamphlet. A selection of outstanding individual poems will be published in an anthology. Winners and authors of poems in the anthology will be invited to read at a launch event in the West Midlands.

Closing date: 1st February 2012

Entry fee: £20 per entry

Judges: Meredith Andrea and Jacqui Rowe

The judges will read all entries, which will be submitted anonymously.

Flarestack Poets' first pamphlet competition in 2008 led to the publication of Advice On Wearing Animal Prints by Selima Hill andWake by Cliff Forshaw which were both extremely successful, Advice On Wearing Animal Prints going on to win the Michael Marks Award for pamphlet of the year. Two short listed poets, Laura Seymour and Caleb Klaces, saw their subsequent collections published by Flarestack.

Full competition rules can be found here.

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