Competitions for Your Writing

Here's a fun one that Writer's Digest sent a lead out on today:

Horticulture
The topic is "Garden Verse." The submission is a poem of up to 40 lines. There are three prizes of up to $250. Deadline is September 1, 2009. There is an entry fee of $15 for the first poem $10 for each succeeding poem.

The point of entering competitions isn't to win, although that's a nice side affect. The point is to practice writing for different purposes, and to get inot the swing of getting your writing out there.