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The Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest
from Winning Writers, the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest:
We seek the best humor poem that has been sent to a “vanity poetry contest” as a joke. Cash prizes totaling $1,609 will be awarded. Free to enter.
Entries accepted August 15, 2005-April 1, 2006
How to Submit Your Entry
Find a vanity poetry contest, a contest with low standards whose main purpose is to entice poets to buy expensive products like anthologies, chapbooks, CDs, plaques and silver bowls. Vanity contests will often praise remarkably bad poems in their effort to sell as much stuff to as many people as possible.
Make up a deliberately absurd, strange, laugh-out-loud humor poem.
Submit your parody poem to a vanity contest as a joke.
After you’ve done steps 1-3, submit your entry to the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest.
There is no fee to submit to the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest. Poets of all nations are welcome. Your poem must be in English (inspired gibberish also accepted). Please submit only one poem during the submission period. Your poem may be of any length.
Complete guidelines with links here.
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1 Comment
1. Georgia Green Stamper replies at 27th December 2005, 1:17 pm :
Perhaps it’s the let-down, post-Christmas mood I’m in today, but this contest seems arrogant and mean-spirited to me. I guess it’s the old high school teacher in me when coaxing anything from a student that resembled a sentence or a complete thought was deemed a triumph. But I hate to see writers making fun of other writers. I guess the point is to call attention to the deceptiveness of vanity presses,and presumably “save” some poor sucker from being suckered (though I doubt such folk would ever be aware of this contest.) But to tell you the truth these winning joke poems sound about as good as a lot of the stuff I read on Writers Almanac every morning (and in other places where, presumably, “literary” non-joke poems are being legitimately published.) Georgia
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