Choose a poem for Weymouth and Portland

Winning Words are running a competition, profiled on BBC 5 live via social networks and email.

We want to know what Winning Words have inspired you in your life? It could be something your mother or a teacher said, or the lyrics of a song or a poem or prayer.

We are looking for words of inspiration to be displayed at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy as a host venue for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic sailing events next year. Entries will be judged by a panel including William Sieghart, Chair of Forward Arts Foundation and presenter John Inverdale.

All you need to do is post in the comment box below, visit the 5 live website or tweet into @bbc5live or @winningpoetry

The Winning Words partnership with LOCOG will bring poetry to visitors to the Olympic and Paralympics sites and nationwide, showing poetry as dynamic, immediate and relevant.

See below for the Terms & Conditions:

Criteria
The competition opens on 6^th October 2011 and will close on 6th November 2011.

People are asked to submit the inspiring lines, which have been meaningful for them. The chosen words of inspiration will then be incorporated into a specially designed installation at Weymouth & Portland Sailing Academy for London 2012.

Entries can be made via Radio 5 live or by posting in the comment box below.

People can make more than one nomination but will not be able to repeatedly submit the same suggestion.

After the online public nomination closes a panel will consider all the suggestions and select the most suitable lines to be installed at Weymouth. The chosen lines will be announced before the end of 2011.
The panel is:

• John Inverdale, broadcaster
• William Sieghart,  Forward Arts Foundation
• John Tweed, Chief Executive, Weymouth
• Clare Balding, broadcaster
• Lemn Sissay, Poet

Rules:

1. Entries should only be a few lines
2. People can nominate from 6th October 2011 until midnight on 6th November inclusive. The panel will not consider suggestions received outside these dates but people can still visit the site to look at the lines suggested and share their choices via social networks.
3. The panels selection will be based on how well the lines serve as inspiration for London 2012 and respond to the specific context. The panels’ decision will be final.
4. Forward Arts Foundation reserves the right to disqualify nominations if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent activity has occurred. Forward Arts Foundation has the right to substitute an alternative selection method at its absolute discretion
5. If for any reason the online nominating fails, a contingency plan will be put in place.
6. Neither Forward Arts Foundation nor the BBC can accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any online, system, server, provider or otherwise, which may result in any nomination, being lost or not properly registered or recorded.
7. Winning Words will be featured on Radio 5 live, however the BBC is not responsible for the final selection of the chosen lines – the panels’ decision is final.
8. The final decision about placement of the poem will depend on the successful acquiring of copyright.
9. We will contact the successful candidate by twitter or email after the competition is closed.