Judged by award-winning poet Pascale Petit, this year's Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival Poetry Competition is themed 'Hope in Nature.'

There are three age categories with three prizes of £50 for 11 and under, £70 for 12 to 17, and £200 for 18 and over.

Poems must be limited to 30 lines long.

Entries open 1 December 2021 and close 9 January 2022.