Holloway Haiku Competition

Closing date for entries extended to 30 June 2010

Essence of the place
in verse, you could do worse or
perhaps much better?

We want your take on Holloway in haiku form! Judges include John Hegley and Aoifa Mannix. Winning entries will be displayed and performed at Holloway Arts Festival at the Big Day Out on Sunday 4 July.

1st prize: £100 Blackwell giftcard

2nd prize: £50 Blackwell giftcard 

3rd prize: £25 Blackwell giftcard

To enter: email your haiku to [email protected]

What's a Haiku?

A haiku is an unrhymed poem of three lines. The first consists of 5 syllables, the second of 7, and the final of 5. The challenge it poses for the writer is to distill meaning into a confined space!

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