IT Itch invites entries for its inaugural prize in web poetry. Designed as an opportunity for amateur digital communicators to share their work and for tech-minded professionals to dabble in a creative art-form, the prize is open to everyone and submissions will be accepted from any country.

Submitted poems must be about this year’s theme – Search Engines – but poets are free to use whatever style they choose.

There is no cost to enter the poetry competition and the winner will receive a cash prize of $300 NZD.

What we are looking for:

The judges will favour poems that utilise the terminology of search/search engines/SEO in an innovative way. We want something fresh and unique. It will help your efforts to do a little bit of research if you don’t already know some of these words. We will also be judging the form of your poem – how it looks on a computer screen. Remember your poem is for digital publication, NOT for print (hint: have you ever right-clicked a web page and clicked ‘view page source’ in a PC? The HTML source code of a website often has beautiful form). Finally, we will be judging how your poem sounds when read aloud – does it have rhythm, flow etc.

For more details please see;  http://ititch.com/poetry-contest/