UPDATE: So that everyone can have more time to send their work in, we will be extending the deadline for submissions to July 22 at midnight. Winners will now be announced on July 29 instead.

This month, The Ubyssey is holding a poetry competition to draw attention to the countless talented writers on campus looking for publication.

Beyond a limit of 30 lines, we have put no other restrictions on your poems. Submit your most wild experiments or traditional sonnets. We will read all of them and keep open minds. Be as creative and fearless as you can be!

We hope that this will be one of the many writing competitions to follow and are very excited to see the work that is submitted.

The rules are as follows:

You may submit one poem no more than 30 lines in length. Or if the poem involves images, one printed 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of paper. We do not care which font you use as long as it's not Comic Sans.

Submissions close on July 15 at midnight.

The winners will be announced on July 22.

There will be one grand prize winner and five second place winners.

The grand prize winner will have their poem published in The Ubyssey along with an interview.

All winners will have the opportunity to read their work at a poetry night in the Ubyssey office.

Prizes will be awarded when we know what they are. At a minimum it will be a lot of beer, but we'll see if we can swing a sweet sponsorship or something.

You must be a student to enter.

How to submit:

Submit your work as a PDF file to culture@ubyssey.ca with the subject heading "July Poetry Competition."

You will be contacted via email if you have won.

Terms and conditions:

Ownership and publication rights:

By submitting your poetry to The Ubyssey you (the author) hereby agree to give The Ubyssey the right to publish the submitted work both online and in print.

Ownership of the work submitted remains with the author. Publication and reprint rights remain with The Ubyssey for the space of four months after its initial publication. The Ubyssey asks that you notify us in writing before submission of your work to another publication and it is accepted by that publication within the four-month term. After the four-month time period following the first publication of the author's poem, all rights will return to the author.

Plagiarism:

If at any point during the competition process, from submission to publication and onwards, The Ubyssey becomes aware of any misrepresentation by the submitting party in question, The Ubyssey maintains the right to rescind any and all benefits, prizes, publication or promotion given to said party.