How to Submit Your Entry to the 2005 Contest (entries accepted August 15, 2004-April 1, 2005)

1) 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.

2) Make up a deliberately absurd, strange, laugh-out-loud parody poem.

Submit your parody poem to a vanity contest as a joke.

4) After you've done steps 1-3, submit your entry to the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest. (http://www.winningwriters.com/wergle...ubmitflomp.htm)

5) 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. If you submit more than one, only your latest entry will be considered. Poems may be of any length.


2005 Prizes

First Prize of $1,190.00 and publication on WinningWriters.com (explain the odd prize amounts)

Second Prize of $169.00 and publication on WinningWriters.com

Third Prize of $60.00 and publication on WinningWriters.com

Five honorable mentions will receive $38.00 each and publication on WinningWriters.com.

http://www.winningwriters.com/contestflomp.htm