Action for Happiness, Call for submissions

The Medway Poetry Group are putting together a book to be called "Action for Happiness" in verse. We have already published two books, The Medway Hour of Poetry and Medways Little Treasures.

The Medway Poetry Group are asking poets to send us poetry relating to happiness and how to become happy. There is no charge to enter poems (six max) and the poems given free but copyright remains with the poet.

To find out about Action for happiness go to www.actionforhappiness.org

Poems should be posted to www.mpghappiness.co.uk Danny Hammell a co-editor will be sorting them out. All profits on the sale of the book will go to Action for happiness. Their movement is growing all the time and is international. Any questions can be sent to terrygodwin@talktalk.net. We hope to complete this project in 3-4 months.

We will read some of the poems out when we read in the radio room of The Sunlight Centre at Gillingham with the poets' permission. We look forward to hearing from poets with their happy poems.

Terry Godwin,
www.thelaughingpoet.co.uk

The Tryangle Project Short Story Competition now open for entries

We are pleased to announce that the TRYangle Project Short Story Competition 2011 on the theme of Domestic Violence and Abuse is now open for entries. This competition is adjudicated by Lancaster University Creative Writing Lecturer, and Novelist, Kate Horsley. Details of the competition are here:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
http://easternlightepm.com/excelforcharity/tryangle-short-story-competition-2011/

The TRYangle Project Poetry Competition 2011 now open for entries

The TRYangle Project Poetry Competition 2011 is now open for entries and will close on the 10th of October, 2011. This competition is adjudicated by Gabriel Griffin, the prize-winning Founder of Poetry on the Lake and author of Campango.
Details of the competition are here:
http://www.easternlightepm.com/excelforcharity/tryangle-poetry-competition-2011/

Domestic Violence and Abuse to get the Excel for Charity treatment

We are pleased to announce that Excel for Charity will run Poetry and Short Story Competitions in aid of TRYangle Project. These competitions will be announced on Monday the 18th of July, 2011 to run until October 10, 2011.

About The TRYangle Project

The TRYangle Project is a Greenwich-based charity, with an aim to increase the safety of families who experience domestic violence and abuse by providing programmes of group work and individual counselling for men and women in London and South-East England, and young people aged 13-18 years who are impacted by domestic violence.

Let's help this project.

Domestic abuse costs the tax payer £23,000,000,000 per year and two women die each week as a result of domestic violence.

TRYangle does not charge individuals for their services this ensures that all members of the community can access the services on offer. TRYangle relies heavily on funding from charitable trusts and foundations. In the past funding had been received from the local authority, police and probation in Greenwich, Lewisham and Bexley but the economic downturn has hit the third sector especially hard this year and TRYangle became a casualty of the funding cuts - which nearly forced their closure.

It is important, now more than ever,that people who believe in this cause help to support TRYangle.

Your poem or story can help to educate individuals, end violence and abuse in the home, keep families safe, reduce the cost to society and possibly even save a life.
Support the TRYangle project today!

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Swale Life Poetry Competition (July 2011)

Closing Date: 20-July-2011

#3 in the quarterly Swale Life international poetry competition in aid of Diversity House, a UK Charity, publishers of Swale Life Magazine (Online). This competition is administered by Eastern Light EPM as part of the Excel for Charity writing competitions series that raises money for charities whilst rewarding creative excellence.Poems must be in English Language on any subject or style with a maximum length of 40 lines. Open to every poet in every country. Poems entered must not have been previously published, posted to a website or blog. The poems must also not be under consideration for publication anywhere.

Prizes: £100, £50, £30, 2 x £10 Commendation Prizes.
Entry Fees: £3/1, £12/5 (a third of entry fees goes to Diversity House)
Judge: Mandy Pannett, Creative Writing Tutor and prize-winning author of Frost Hollow
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Poetry Competition raises £180.65 for Lupus UK

The international poetry competition run by Excel for Charity for Lupus UK came to a close at midnight on 30th June, 2011. The final figures on our fund-o-meter records a total of 166 poems entered with net entry fees of £541.94. This means that the cheque we shall be sending to Lupus UK next week will be for a nice sum of £180.65p. This means that every poem entered into this competition raised just over £1.08, and we can't say thank you enough to all the poets from different nations - United Kingdom, Greece, Hong Kong, United States, Gambia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, among others.

We are grateful to Jim Bennett for accepting to help judge this competition for us. We trust that he will do a great job. His report will be published on this website. If you would like to receive an e-mail notification when the results and judge's report are published, visit our list page and join us.