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We're delighted to announce the first A Poem and a Pint Poetry Competition.

The competition will be judged by Clare Shaw who had two collections published by Bloodaxe, Straight Ahead (2006), shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers' Award for Poetry, and Head On (2012). Her third collection, Frig, is due from Bloodaxe in 2018.

Clare Shaw will award prizes at the A Poem and A Pint event on Saturday 29 September 2018, when winning and commended poems will be read out.

Winner will be contacted by September 10.





Prizes:
•First: £150
•Second: £100
•Third: £50
•Prize for young poets aged 14-21: £25.

Prize-winners will be offered a ten-minute reading at the prize giving event on 29 September.

Against the Grain are looking for a competition winner‘s poem they like enough to submit to the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. First, second and third prize winners will be invited to read at an ATG event. Winning poems will be published on their website.

Prizes:
•First prize – £100
•Second prize – £50
•Third prize – £25





Judges – Abegail Morley, Jessica Mookherjee and Karen Dennison (ATG editors).

International awards for Poetry, Flash Fiction, and Short Story.

Amazing to be in the fifth year of the Bare Fiction Prize. New and old writers alike all have a chance to win big cash prizes and publication within each of the three categories offered. Each entry is judged anonymously by our judges, with the poetry and flash fiction category judges reading every single entry in their category and our short story judge reading a longlist selected by Bare Fiction magazine editor, Robert Harper.
Deadline 31st October 2018

Adult: 1st Prize £500, 2nd prize £250, three 3rd prizes of £50.
Junior (7-11): 1st Prize £25; 2nd prize £15; 3rd Prize £10

Entry: Adults £5 per poem. Juniors £1 per poem

Entries to: BBAC (Poetry Competition), The Bull Theatre, 68 High Street, Barnet EN5 5SY

Competition anthology for winning/commended poems.
Entry Form and Rules: http://www.barnetarts.org.uk/bbac/poetry/index.htm

We are reading full-length poetry manuscripts for this year's Blue Light Books Prize. Submit September 1-October 31, 2018. Final judge: Adrian Matejka.

We’re inviting you to send us a poem that deals with any aspects of the Brexit process. We're not interested in whether you are for or against leaving the EU but it’s about how you’ve put the poem together: your use of language, rhythm, sound, imagery, etc. We want to be touched, inspired or even frustrated by your poem. The actual word Brexit does not have to appear, but the poem needs to be inspired by Brexit, for example by throwing a new light on being in or out of the EU, or by expressing something that hasn’t been voiced before, but make sure to stay away from clichés.

Prize: £200 and publication in the Holland Park Press online magazine


Length: 50 lines or less


Entry fee: none

Starting date: 14 June 2018


Deadline: 31 December 2018
Eligibility: poems written in English by writers over 18 from any country
To s_ubmit: email your poem as a Word, Text or PDF attachment to submissions@hollandparkpress.co.uk
Organizer: Holland Park Press
Webpage: complete guidelines are available

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"Cannon Poets Sonnet or Not 2018 Poetry Prize" online entry

You may use this online form to enter the competition, paying either by credit/debit card or Paypal account. The closing date is 31st October 2018.



Your poems(s):

Copy and paste your poem(s) into the box below, but note that each poem must be preceded by its title. Basic formatting tools are available.

Coast to Coast to Coast





Would you like a small portfolio of your poems stitched between handmade covers and published by Coast to Coast to Coast?





Poems may have been published individually. Please ensure you have copyright of work submitted

To navigate site go to homepage and select from the menus.

(For current competition: www.eyewearpublishing.com/pages/the-best-new-british-and-irish-poets)

Blog: www.eyewearpublishing.com/blogs/news

Welcome to Eyewear Publishing!

Here you can find our stylish hardcovers and paperbacks, including the new Squint series and our pamphlets, which made the Michael Marks Award shortlist last year.

Please note that orders made in late July and August may not be posted until after August 15th, due to staff holidays.

"We admire these for the publisher's ambition in terms of the range of poetries on show, the quality of much of that work, and the consistently high production values that have already become a hallmark of this press." - Judges' comments, Michael Marks Award.

1st Prize: €1,000; 2nd Prize :€500
Both winners will win a chapbook publication and 50 complimentary copies. The published chapbooks will be reviewed in Southword Journal and elsewhere.

The winning poets are also offered a reading and three nights' accommodation at the Cork 2019 International Poetry Festival (March 27th-30th, 2019) (www.corkpoetryfest.net)

The competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country. One of these winners will be the highest scoring manuscript entered by a debutant poet with no solo collection (full-length or chapbook) previously published. Up to 25 other entrants will be publicly listed as "highly commended".

Manuscripts can be between 16 and 23 pages in length, in the English language and the sole work of the entrant with no pastiches, translations or 'versions'. The poems can be in verse or prose.

There is an entrance fee of €25 for each manuscript. Entrants may enter more than one manuscript. The winners will be selected by a panel of renowned poets including Mary Noonan, Matthew Sweeney, Thomas McCarthy, James Harpur and Leanne O’Sullivan.

The winning chapbooks will be published by Southword editions in March 2019 and will be launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival (March 27-30, 2019). It will be offered for sale internationally through our own website and in selected independent book sellers.

Deadline: Saturday 30th of June, Midnight

Hammond House Literary Prize





With three different categories, cash prizes and more opportunities for publication, there's never been a better time to gain recognition for your talent and get published with Hammond House.

First prize is £100 with worldwide publication for the top 25 entries.Deadline Sept 30th 2018





There is a televised award ceremony and a feedback option.

OPEN TO POETS WHO HAVE NOT HAD A FULL PAMPHLET OR COLLECTION PUBLISHED



TWO winners will have their debut pamphlet published by award-winning publishers

Indigo Dreams Publishing and receive a royalty contract plus 20 free copies

Submission: Complete pamphlet up to 30 poems or pages of poetry, 36 lines max (inc. breaks)

Entry Fee: £14 per submission

Closing Date: 30th September 2018

THE 2019 COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN. The deadline for the 2019 competition is 31st January 2019. The Judge is poet Ruth O'Callaghan and she will read all the submissions

The book will be A5 in format, perfect bound, with full colour covers (gloss laminated or matt laminated according to the winning author’s choice), between 50 pages minimum and 100 pages maximum in length. It will have an ISBN number and therefore be subject to ‘Legal Deposit’. This means that one copy will be sent to each of the major universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dublin and Edinburgh, where they will be archived; and a further copy will be deposited with the British Library. There will be no need for a contract. The copyright will remain exclusively with the poet to do whatever he or she wishes with those rights. The deadline for the second competition is December 31st 2018. Results will be published on the Littoral Press website sometime in February 2019. Entrants will be charged £20.00 per manuscript.

Please read full details of the competition and its rules and conditions.
These can be found on the littoral press website-

www.southendpoetry.co.uk/littoral/Competition.html

Details:
The littoral press will be holding a yearly competition for a full collection of nature/spiritual/environmental poetry. 60 copies of the winning collection will be published by the Littoral Press. 10 copies will be retained by the littoral press for ‘legal deposit’ and the press’s archives. 50 copies will be delivered free of charge to the winning poet - UK mainland only. For entries from outside this area delivery charges will have to apply, unfortunately.
Entry Fee: £20 per manuscript
Contact: See website for full details http://www.southendpoetry.co.uk/littoral/CompetitionRules.html

50 poems will be longlisted and published in our 2018 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed by the Live Canon ensemble at our prize giving event at Greenwich Theatre. 1 poem will receive a winning prize of £ 1000.

£10,000 prize for the best portfolio of three to five poems (maximum combined length: 120 lines). Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over (no upper age limit).





Judging panel: Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Carol Ann Duffy and Adam O'Riordan (chair).

Every year Mslexia runs four competitions, open to women writers of all levels of experience. For prose writers, we have a Short Story Competition and a Novel Competition, and for writers of verse we have a Poetry Competition for single poems, and a Pamphlet Competition for completed collections.

With feedback and substantial monetary prizes available, our competitions were created to help women writers progress. Winners have gone on to secure publishing deals and literary agents after years of searching – this year it could be you. Good luck!

The Poetry Society’s annual National Poetry Competition is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world for previously unpublished single poems and has a first prize of £5,000.

2018

The 2018 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries! Judged by Kei Miller, Kim Moore and Mark Waldron, the deadline is 31 October 2018. Enter online at npc.poetrysociety.org.uk.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, poems and stories are invited in the Gothic tradition.

What does Gothic mean to you? Dark? Spooky? Vampires and ruined monasteries or perhaps something more subtle and uncanny? Maybe Southern Gothic, as in Faulkner or Anne Rice’s work for example, or Canadian Gothic is your thing. It’s up to you and your Gothic imagination.

Get writing – and chill us to the bone!





Prizes:
•First: The Canterbury Christ Church University Poetry Prize of £200
•Second: £100
•Third: £50

Judge: Sonia Overall

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Overton Poetry Prize

In memory of Professor Bill Overton (1946-2012), the School of the Arts, English and Drama offers this prize for a sequence of poems on any subject, up to 300 lines.

The first-placed entry will be published in chapbook form. 100 copies will be published, of which the winning poet will receive 50. Please see links below for examples of previous winners.

Two runners-up will each receive £50 book tokens.

The Overton Poetry Prize 2018 will close on 20th December 2018, and the winner will be announced in February 2019.

Judges:

Kerry Featherstone, Lecturer in Creative Writing

Carol Rowntree-Jones, Poet in Residence

(All entries will be anonymised before being read by the judges)

How to enter

Entries and payment of fee (£12 per sequence of poetry) can be made online.

Hard copy entries must be accompanied by a cheque to: Loughborough University, FAO: Grace Lewis, LU Arts, Martin Hall, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU by 20th December 2018.

Primers is an annual mentoring and publication scheme organised by the Poetry School and Nine Arches Press. It provides a unique opportunity for talented poets to find publication and receive a programme of supportive feedback, mentoring and promotion.





The three selected poets will receive mentoring from poet Kim Moore, author of The Art of Falling and winner of the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, editorial support from Nine Arches Press editor and Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow Jane Commane, and publication in Primers Volume Four, followed by a programme of readings and launches.

There are up to 25 free entries available for writers who would not otherwise be able to afford to enter.

The judges are poet Kim Moore and editor Jane Commane.

The 2018 Stanza Poetry Competition is open and our theme this year is Tradition. Exclusive to Poetry Society members who are also Stanza members – but entrants can join any time before the competition closes. Send up to two poems, max 40 lines per poem (not including title). Judge: Penelope Shuttle.

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Open Poetry Competition 2018

The Ronald Duncan Short Poem Competition 2018

Open for entries from May 1st
•1st prize £1000 in each category
•2nd prize £500 in each category
•3rd prize £250 in each category

Entry fee for both categories £5 per poem

Competition closes 31st October 2018

Our competitions are designed to recognise and reward talented writers who, following in the footsteps of William Allingham, seek to launch or further their careers. The Allingham Festival includes competitions for adult writers of poetry and flash fiction, and also for children. The festival offers readings and workshops led by nationally-recognised literary figures where aspiring authors can meet, share ideas, and discuss the emerging trends in the world of writing and publishing.

The Charles Causley Poetry Competition has been set up to support the development of Charles Causley’s House in Launceston for poetry residencies and other literature activity. The Charles Causley Poetry Competition is now open for entries. 1st Prize: £2000. 2nd Prize: £250. 3rd Prize: £100 & 5 highly commended awards of £30 each.

St Pancras International partners with House of Illustration and ‘Charlie and Lola’ author to launch worldwide hunt for young illustration talent

An international illustration prize for illustrators aged 18- 25 years


•Illustrate a poem by a Betjeman Poetry Prize finalist


•£1000 first prize, plus prizes for commended illustrators


•Top 12 illustrators will be commissioned to create further work to be exhibited at St Pancras International station, London, in September 2018

THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Over £5,000 to be won.
•First prize: £3,000
•Second prize: £1,500
•Third prize: £750

To enter, visit the-tls.co.uk/poetry18

Closing date October 14, 2018.

Winner: £200, Publication in Prole 28 in April 2019.

Publication on the Prole website

2 x runner up prizes of £50, publication in Prole 28.

Publication on the Prole website.

£3.00 for first entry, £2.00 for any subsequent entries.

How to enter

Via our website and email – preferred.

Make the correct payment using the PayPal button, below.

Email your entry, including the text and PayPal transaction number within the body of the email, to: poetrycompetition@prolebooks.co.uk

By post

Make a cheque (GBP only, please) payable to

P Robertson and mail along with entry to:

Brett Evans

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Winner: £200, Publication in Prole 28 in April 2019.

Publication on the Prole website

2 x runner up prizes of £50, publication in Prole 28.

Publication on the Prole website.

£3.00 for first entry, £2.00 for any subsequent entries.

How to enter

Via our website and email – preferred.

Make the correct payment using the PayPal button, below.

Email your entry, including the text and PayPal transaction number within the body of the email, to: poetrycompetition@prolebooks.co.uk

By post

Make a cheque (GBP only, please) payable to

P Robertson and mail along with entry to:

Brett Evans

15 Maes - y - Dre

Abergele

Conwy

LL227HW

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the White Review Poet’s Prize 2018. The Poet’s Prize was founded in 2017 with support from Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and is for English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection. The winning poet will receive a significant financial reward of £1700, expert, personalised professional and editorial advice, and publication of their entry in The White Review. The Prize is open to residents of the UK and Ireland.



Crucially, the White Review Poet’s Prize only accepts entries of poetry portfolios (5–10 pages per portfolio), as opposed to single-poem entries.



The Poet’s Prize is also unique among UK poetry prizes in actively encouraging work which explores and expands the possibilities of the page-poetry form.



Last year’s Prize was awarded to Lucy Mercer, whose portfolio was published in The White Review No. 22.



The judges for the 2018 White Review Poet’s Prize are Anne Boyer, Kayo Chingonyi, and Lavinia Greenlaw.



An award ceremony will be held in London, in early December, to announce the winner.



The submission period is 5 September 2018 until 5.00pm on 6 November 2018.



THE JUDGES



Anne Boyer’s poetry books include The Romance of Happy

The Poetry Society’s annual National Poetry Competition is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world for previously unpublished single poems and has a first prize of £5,000.

2018

The 2018 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries! Judged by Kei Miller, Kim Moore and Mark Waldron, the deadline is 31 October 2018. Enter online at npc.poetrysociety.org.uk.

First Prize: £1,000 plus free weekend at the poetry festival including accommodation and Festival Pass
•Second Prize: £300 plus a free Festival Pass
•Third Prize: £150 plus ticket for the Festival supper for two





Poems must be original, unpublished and not accepted for publication. They should be written in English and not exceed 50 lines.

Online entries are £5 each because of additional admin costs in time and printing.

Judge: Daniella Hope

judged by Jo Shapcott & Daljit Nagra, first prize £2,000, second prize £1,000 third prize: a week-long creative-writing course at the arvon centre of your choice with thanks to arvon: home of creative writing plus with thanks to leading poetry magazines & poetry publishers: 5 prizes of book bundles each with 6 latest poetry titles from Bloodaxe books,Carcanet,Faber & Faber, Nine arches press & Seren books 5 prizes of 1-yr poetry magazine subscriptions from Under the radar, Poetry wales PN Review, New Ohio Review & Mslexia.
Entry Fee: £6/€7/$7.50 for 1st poem & £4/€5/$5 for each subsequent poem in same submission
Contact: Submit via e-mail or post, for full details see http://www.coffeehousepoetry.org/prizes

Our competition celebrates Waltham Forest as London’s first Borough of Culture in 2019. The theme is “A Bright Future” and the entries will be judged by local poet Meryl Pugh.





The competition runs to midnight Friday September 7th 2018.Winners will be notified before the prize giving on 29th October at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre Pub, Walthamstow




There are three sections: National, Young Poets and a Local Prize for those living and working in the borough.

The prizes for the National Competition are: 1st prize (£300), 2nd (£200) and 3rd (£100). For the Young Poet and Local Competitions the prizes are identical: 1st (£50), 2nd (£30) and 3rd (£20).

For the National and Local Competitions there’s an entry fee of £3 for the first poem and £1 for each subsequent poem (up to a maximum of four entries). The Young Poets competition for young poets under the age of 18 is free to enter. Poems can be sent by post, email, or entered online, via s_ubmittable


How to enter is https://pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/

The 12th International Welsh Poetry Competition 2018 is now open and accepting entries! Judge - Sally Spedding. 50 lines maximum. 1st prize - £500 2nd Prize - £250 3rd Prize - £100 plus 17 runners up published on website and future anthology.
Entry Fee: £5 per poem (£6 PayPal)
Contact:

Entry forms, rules, past winners, anthologies available from: http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk

This year’s first prize is €1,000, with two runners-up prizes of €200 and €100 respectively.

There is an entry fee of €10 for up to three poems. The closing entry date is Friday, Sept 21st, 2018 at 6 pm. Winners will be announced during the festival on Thursday the 25th of October 2018. Shortlisted entrants will be notified one week in advance and invited to attend an open-mic night before the prizewinners are publically announced.