The great wheel of the year is turning and it's time to reap what you have sown! Your garden, your relationships, your job, your finances ...
Whatever area of life, physical or allegorical, the seeds we sow will always bear fruit!
But will it be the sweet taste of sun-ripened berries or the sour sting of vinegary wine? Tell us what your harvest is in a poem of no more than 24 lines. You can use rhyme or free verse. Be profoundly serious or wickedly humorous, but the harvest theme MUST play a central part in your verse!
Not compulsory, but we would love you to illustrate your poem with either a photograph or other graphic of your own or one from our site gallery. (Browse gallery)
All our site photographs can be seen in our competition Gallery and can be added to your poem when you submit your entry. (Browse gallery)
If using your own photograph, you will be given the opportunity to upload when submitting your entry.
As with all our open contests, Grape and Grain is limited to 100 entries!
To be sure of a place register now and then submit your entry before the closing date, 30th September, 2010.
You will not be allowed to forget as we will send out a reminder approximately 1 week before the closing date!
Prizes
First Prize - £40 
Second Prize - £20 
Third Prize - £20
Very Highly Commended - Free membership of the Writelinkonline creative writing community.
Commended - Poetry For Profit, ebook containing huge database of markets that pay for poetry.
Keep checking this page as we hope to add more prizes during the contest!
Here’s what you do
Register by clicking the PayPal button. The entry fee is £5.00 or send a sterling cheque for £5.00 to: Writelink, 7 Melbourne Road, Newbold, Coleorton, Leicestershire. LE67 8JH.
Once registration has been completed you will be given the choice of submitting your poem either immediately or at a later date. Ask the world to come and vote and comment on your poem! (Don′t worry, we make it easy for you to do that!)
Take a look at the full list of rules.
Ready to enter?
Meet our judge Jenny Moore
Jennifer's poetry and short fiction have appeared in many publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Guardian, Mslexia, South, The First Line and Short Fiction.
She was the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition 2009 and a previous winner of the Divine Poetry Contest. She has also been a runner-up in both the Mslexia Poetry Competition and the Mslexia Short Story Competition and won this year's Best Devon Poem in the Plough Prize.
Check out Jenny Moore on Writelink