The Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest is open to writers around the world, is completely free to enter, and offers $2,250 in cash prizes.<\/p>\n
Contestants can enter one humor poem, up to 250 lines.<\/p>\n
According to the contest page:<\/p>\n
Submit one humor poem, up to 250 lines.<\/strong> First prize of $1,000 plus a one-year gift certificate\u00a0from our co-sponsor,\u00a0Duotrope<\/a>\u00a0(a $50 value). Second prize of $250. Ten Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each. The top 12 entries will be published online. There is no fee<\/strong> to enter. Judge: Jendi Reiter<\/a>, assisted by Lauren Singer Ledoux<\/a>.<\/p>\n
In addition to English, your poem may contain inspired gibberish. You may submit published or unpublished work. Please omit your name from your entries. We prefer 12-point type or larger. Please avoid fancy, hard-to-read fonts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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The contest is run by Winning Writers, which is a website about writing contests; they publish a lot of information about free writing contests. Beware that they also promote fee-based contests.<\/p>\n