IT'S time to start getting your entries ready for the popular spoof art award The Turnip Prize as the competition will soon be open.

The competition sees its 'artists' create works using involving groan-worthy puns, with the judges giving recognition to entries which have taken as little effort as possible to create.

The Turnip Prize regularly gets national media attention, but is based from The New Inn, Wedmore in Somerset.

Previous winners include Chris P. Bacon's 'Pulled Pork' - (a toy tractor pulling a pig), and Plumsky's Poldark (a black pole).

Entries will be accepted from Sunday, November 1, but due to the Covid-19 restrictions entries will only be accepted online.

Trevor Prideaux, organiser of The Turnip Prize, said: "Due to the restrictions around Covid-19, this year’s Turnip Prize will see a new and safer format for entering.

"Entries will only be accepted online, please do not post or deliver them to The New Inn.

"To enter email a photo of your entry to theturnipprize@outlook.com Please include your name or pseudonym, the title of the entry and a contact phone number. "

The closing date for entries will be Saturday, November 14, with preliminary judging taking place on Sunday, November 15, to shortlist six finalists.

The six finalists will be then invited to send their entries in for final judging.

On arrival the six finalists entries will be sanitized and put on show at The New Inn, Combe Batch, Wedmore. BS28 4DU.

Final judging will then take place at The New Inn, Wedmore, Somerset, on Tuesday, December 1 and the winner will be announced at 6pm that evening.