Deadline: (31st August 2016)

September – December: Judging
December: Winners and finalists announced
December: Anthology published

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that celebrates excellence in Poetry and Short Fiction. The prize is now in its 10th year, hosted by the international art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine. With the aim to support and nurture new writing talent, it awards publication within an inspiring anthology to a shortlist of 60 writers, including a winner from each category.

The winners are also presented with further opportunities to expand their literary careers: £500 cash prize each, a consultation with literary agency Redhammer Management, a Full Membership to The Poetry Society, a subscription to Granta and books courtesy of Bloodaxe Books and Vintage Books.

2016: The competition will open on 1 May and close on 1 July.

Ambit Magazine announces the launch of its 2016 Poetry and Fiction Competition. There’s no theme this year – just send us your best work on any subject, in any style.

First place prize in each category will be £500, second place £250, and third £100.

All six prize-winning pieces will be published in issue 226 of Ambit Magazine, and the poets and writers will be invited to read at the launch on 25 October 2016 in London.

The winners will be announced on this site.

Deadline: Closed (1st December 2016)
Results: April/May 2017
Prize: £2000 and publication in UK and USA.

Collection competition for those who have not had more than one collection published already.

Simultaneous submission.

Buy: www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/buy-it

Submit: www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/submissions

Competition: www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/buy/writing-competitions/bare-fiction-prize-2016-poetry-entry

Deadline: Closed(31st October 2016): Judge: Helen Mort

Magazine: Website submissions: no limit on poem length: submission windows: accepts simultaneous submissions

Bare Fiction was set up to promote new writing in all forms through performance, digital representation and publication. We offer a platform for new creative writing across poetry, fiction and plays to encourage writers who are testing their boundaries to stretch themselves creatively.

One of the ways we do this is through our new literary periodical, Bare Fiction Magazine. An 80 page A4 publication comprising of new work in the genres of poetry, fiction and plays, including articles and reviews of writing along with interviews with practitioners that is entirely produced by our team of volunteer editors and contributors. Due to a very successful Kickstarter campaign and pre-orders we raised enough money to enable the first issue to be printed in a limited run of 500 copies. We also produced a digital pdf version of the magazine and designed promotional postcards across the three genres.

Deadline: Closed (16th November)

Two competitions

1. Open

Judge: Mario Petrucci
Prizes:1st, £500; 2nd, £250, 3rd, 3 x £100.

2. Junior

Judge: Katherine Gallagher

Two categories: 7-11 & 12-16
Prizes (7-11): 1st, £25; 2nd, £15; 3rd, 3 x £10.
Prizes (12-16): 1st, £75; 2nd, £50; 3rd, 3 x £25.

Contact: Entry form or send SAE to Barnet Borough Arts Council, 122 Oakleigh Road North, London, N20 9EZ

Deadline: 30th June 2017

Judges: Malika Booker and Cristina Navazo-Eguía Newton, who will both read all the poems.

Prizes: 1st, £700; 2nd, £200; 3rd, £100, plus four commendations of £25 each.

The 3 winners and 4 commended poets are invited to read their poems at the Poetry Swindon Festival on Saturday 7th October 2017, when Malika Booker will present the prizes and read from her own work.

Winning and commended poems will appear in the Battered Moons pamphlet and website.

For further information and to enter online, see link.

Closing Date: 20 March 2017

Prizes: First: £150, second: £100, third: £50

Theme: ‘Harvest’. 40 lines max.

Judge: Clare Best. Poems must be original and unpublished. Simultaneous submissions can be accepted.

Prize-giving evening: June 10, as part of Binsted Arts Weekend (June 8-11, 2017, in Binsted, West Sussex).Winners will be invited to read and have their poems included on the Binsted Arts website and in an anthology of winning and other poems.

Entry fee: £5 for first poem, £3 each thereafter for any number of poems.

Comp Page : Send 2 copies of each poem with cheque and completed entry form. For further details, rules and entry form visit: www.binsted.org/arts-weekend

Annual Poetry Contest

Deadline: June 1, 2017
Judge: To Be Announced
First Prize: $1,500 and publication

Deadline: 31st May 2017

Judge: Lemn Sissay

1st prize £5,000, 2nd £1,000, 3rd £500. An additional ten highly commended prizes of £100 each are awarded. All 13 winning entries are published in the anthology each year.

www.bridportprize.org.uk/content/competition-rules

Details of 2017 competition not yet announced

Deadline: (23rd August 2016)
Sole Judge: Alison Brackenbury (will read all entries)

Poems up to length: 70 lines.

Prizes: £600, £300, £50 x 5 commended.

The Gloucestershire Prize- £200 (residents only).
Fee: £4; £10/3 (postal entries); £4.35; £8.70/2; £11/3 (Paypal).

Online entry: see link, or SEND SAE to Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition, Butlers, Western Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3RN for details

Deadline: Closed (30th November 2016)
WInners told: by 31st January 2017
Prize-giving: 17th February

Judge: Andrew McMillan

Prizes: 1st £1000; 2nd £300; 3rd £150; 6 commended £50; funniest not winning another prize £100; Norfolk £100

*Debut Poetry Collection Prize
Deadline: 30th November, 2017.

www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/competitions/debut-poetry-collection-prize

1 year's free mentoring/(for those who have completed mentoring) 100 copies of the collection + publishing contract. Open to those who have not had a full collection published. Judged by Jan Fortune. The fee is £12.

*Mini-competitions

Deadline: for details see link below; 1 to 2-monthly throughout 2017.
We are looking for highly taut, compressed pieces of poetry in very short form

www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/competitions/mini-competitions

*Poetry Pamphlet Prize

Deadline: 31st March 2017

www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/competitions/poetry-pamphlet-prize

4 prizes of 30 copies plus publishing contracts for each of the four winners.
Open to beginners and established writers. Judged by Ian Gregson. The fee is £10.

Deadline: (3rd September 2016)
Results: mid-October

Winners invited to read at Poetry Festival

Judge: Alison Brackenbury

www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=59276

Deadline: 30th July 2017

The best entries will be published, online initially, but with an option of publication in our next paperback anthology. The authors will receive one complimentary copy of the anthology. 10-20 will be included, depending on length and quality. All winners will be offered further copies at a reduced price if they request them.

The erbacce-prize for 2016 is now closed for submissions after midnight on the first of May 2016

This year was a RECORD ENTRY with just under 8,000 entries world wide; we have been editing and selecting as entries came in. The quality of the entries, world-wide, was breath-taking; there are some extraordinary poets out there with unique voices, it is humbling and it was very difficult to choose BUT; the panel has chosen a winner; click here to see the full results.

A reminder of the winner's prize:

1) Publication of your collected works in perfect-bound format with full-colour gloss or matt cover (the winner chooses)
2) A publishing contract with erbacce-press
3) Generous royalties
4) Your own dedicated Sales-Page
5) Five free copies of your book delivered to your home

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.

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Fair Acre Press is an independent publishing house committed to publishing high quality books that are good to hold, touch, look at and read; books that will call out to you – over and over again.

The Fair Acre Press International Poetry Pamphlet competition 2016 will be open for submissions in November 2016

Deadline: 2nd June 2017

Prizes: 1st prize £175, 2nd prize £75, 3rd prize £50, Highly Commended: 2 prizes of £10 each, Wirral prize £30

Adjudicator: Gill McEvoy

For further details and rules see link above

Judge: Jo Shapcott

Word Limit: 300 words

Closes: 31 March 2017

Results: 15 May 2017

Anthology Published: July 2017

Entry Fees: €14 (€8 subsequent entries).

Prizes:

Top 10 poems will be published. 1st: €1,000. 2nd weeks residency at Anam Cara Writers’ Reatreat

Deadline: Closed (31st October 2016).

First prize: £1000

Second prize: £250

We are very pleased to announce the 2016 Flambard Poetry Prize, which continues to honour the achievements of Flambard Press and the inspiration of founders Margaret and Peter Lewis. Between 1990 and 2012, Flambard Press published an acclaimed range of poetry and fiction, helping to nurture many emergent and established writers regionally and nationally. It was recognised as one of the finest small independent presses in the UK.

The Flambard Prize is awarded annually to the best group of five poems submitted by a poet who has not yet published a single-authored pamphlet or collection. Each poem should be no longer than 40 lines.

The cost of entry is £5 per group of five poems.

Judges: Linda France and Andrew Forster.

The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2016 is now closed for entries.

Thank you to everyone who who sent in their poems. We will contact all winners in September. Winners will be announced publicly at the Awards ceremony on National Poetry Day, 6 October 2016.

Deadline: Closed (10th October 2016)

Two winners will receive a royalty publishing contract for a 52 page poetry collection published by Indigo Dreams and will receive 25 free copies,.

Submission:

10 poems to 36 lines max, email or print

Entry Fee: £20 per block of poems

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Contact: info@greyhenpress.com

Competition deadline: deadline passed for 2016

Grey Hen is a small independent press which publishes poetry by older women, concentrating in the first instance on producing themed anthologies. These showcase the particularity of women’s voices, and give less well-known poets the opportunity of having their work published alongside that of established writers.

The aim of the press is to collect and share some of today’s exciting new work by older women; work that is perhaps not being taken up by mainstream publishers. For older women, especially those who have reached their sixties before realising their writing potential, it’s often the case that it is difficult to build up a publishing history in the expected way. Time is not on our side.

These workshops, and the competition open to participants, are being offered as part of the Lumière project which poet Sue Burge is working on and for which she has received an Arts Council grant. As well as being a poet, Sue is also a creative writing tutor and film studies lecturer.

Workshops

The Inspired by Film workshops aim to broaden the audience for both film and poetry. Workshop participants will be asked to respond poetically to film clips. No previous experience of poetry is necessary as exercises will help participants to create fresh and original poetry in response to the chosen clips. Details of workshops below. There is no charge for these poetry workshops, but places are limited so please contact Sue on skburge@outlook.com to book your place.

Competition

All participants, in the workshops will be invited to send an entry, free of charge, to an Inspired by Film Poetry Competition. This will be judged by Maura Dooley and Heidi Williamson.

Details of the rules and prizes for the competition are on Sue's website www.sueburge.uk

Workshop details

Please note you can only attend one workshop from the following:

1) Monday, 3rd October 2016, 6-8.30pm — Friends’ Meeting House, Bridge Street, King’s Lynn
Supported by King’s Lynn Community Cinema Club

2) Monday, 10th October 2016, 6-8.30pm — The Meeting Room, Picturehouse, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge
Supported by the Picturehouse Cinema, Cambridge

3) Saturday, 15th October 2016, 2-4.30pm — The Community Room, Crouch End Picturehouse, 165 Tottenham Lane, London N8 9BY
Supported by the Picturehouse Cinema, Crouch End

4) Saturday, 5th November 2016, 2-4.30pm — The Education Suite, Cinema City, St Andrew’s Street, Norwich
Supported by Cinema Plus at Cinema City

The final event of the Lumière project will be an Open Mic session in the Picturehouse Bar, Cambridge on Monday, 30th January 2017 from 7pm. The evening will begin with an opportunity to hear some of the poems Sue has written as a result of the project, followed by an opportunity for winning and shortlisted competition entrants to read their work.

Deadline: passed for 2016 (31st January)

Deadline: (12th September)

Entries are open for the Live Canon 2016 International Poetry Competition.

Previous winners include Andrew McMillan, Tessa Foley, Kirsten Irving, Inua Ellams and Lesley Saunders.

25 shortlisted poems will be published in our 2016 prize anthology, and performed by the Live Canon Ensemble at our prize giving event at Greenwich Theatre on Sunday 20th November 2016.

We are absolutely honoured that Lorraine Mariner has agreed to be our guest judge this year.

This year’s winner is James Knox Whittet for the poem ‘A Machine at Full Speed’. His prize will include having a chapbook published, 50 free copies and a launch reading in the Camden venue. (April 2016)

MAGMA’S POETRY COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. ENTRIES WILL REOPEN AUTUMN 2016

Deadline: 23rd September 2016
Results: by 4th November
Prizegiving: 25th November

Chair of Judges: Adam O'Riordan

Prize: £10,000

£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).

Entries will be accepted only by post or online via the competition website. Submission via other means (e.g. email) will not be accepted.

Deadline: 21st June 2017

Judge: Maura Dooley

Prizes: 1st, £1,000; 2nd, £300; 3rd, £100; 6 commendations of £25

Contact: enter on line or by post. For more information see link or contact "The Competition Organiser, The Yellow Land, Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran KA27 8PZ, Scotland, UK" enclosing s.a.e

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!

Deadline: Closed (5th January 2017)

Winners announced: 18 May 2017 - National Memory Day

Best Poem Award: Prize £4000

The National Memory Day Creative Writing Competition invites entries from people of any age writing in English to share their poems and short stories with us. We are looking for your poems and short stories which evoke our theme of MEMORIES.

Deadline: Closed (31st October)

Results: February 2017 to winners; March 2017 on website

Judges: Moniza Alvi, Gerry Cambridge and Jack Underwood

Prizes: 1st, £5000, also 2nd and 3rd prizes, and 8 commendations.

Rules: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/national-poetry-competition/rules

Online entries: http://npc.poetrysociety.org.uk

Closing date – midnight 31st July 2016

Our 2016 competitions are now closed. Thank you for all your entries, we had a tremendous response to both competitions and our judges have a very difficult task ahead. Details of the shortlists for the First Chapter and Poetry competitions will be announced here at the end of August. Winners will be announced at PENfro Book Festival on Friday, September 9th.

Deadline for 2016 passed (31st January)

Deadline: (4th September 2016)

The Poetry School and Nine Arches Press are delighted to announce the arrival of Primers Volume 2, the second year of an annual scheme which creates a unique opportunity for talented poets to find publication and receive a programme of supportive feedback, mentoring and promotion.

The scheme will select three poets whose work will feature together in Primers Volume 2, a book showcasing short debut collections of work. With the involvement of Jane Commane (Nine Arches’ poetry editor), Jacob Sam-La Rose (poet) and the Poetry School, Primers Volume 2 will nurture and support new talent that may otherwise not find an outlet.

It also aims to provide an important opportunity for poets to develop their skills, work on their poetry practice, and find audiences for their work. Following editing and mentoring with Jacob and Jane, the Primers Volume 2 collection will be published by Nine Arches Press, and a further series of live events will showcase the three chosen poets at festivals and shows around the country.

Entry Fee: £15 per submission of up to 6 poems.

Buy: www.poetryspace.co.uk/category/shop

Submit: www.poetryspace.co.uk/about

Established in 2010, Poetry Space operates as a social enterprise, with all profits being used to fund this website, book and pamphlet publishing, subsidised workshops and readings. Collections by individual poets have benefited Bath Mind, Contact the Elderly and Multiple Sclerosis Association. Our latest anthology call will benefit Médecins San Frontière and Amnesty International. Our aim is to widen participation in poetry and to empower people through creativity.
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Competition 2016 closed on June 30th with 249 entries.

All entries are now with our judge Myra Schneider who will read all of them, select a top 20 including three for cash prizes of £250, £100 and £50.

The top 20 will all be published in a prizewinners’ anthology.

Thank you to everyone who entered this year.

Closing Date: 27th February 2017

Judge: Michael Symmons Roberts will read ALL poems. All poems will be judged anonymously.

1st Prize: £500, 2nd Prize: £200, 3rd Prize: £100

Commended poets at the judge’s discretion.

Entry fee is £4 per poem or 3 for £10. Application form from our website. Winners will be informed by Friday 7 April 2017 and will be invited to read alongside Michael Symmons Roberts at a launch ceremony on the afternoon of 22 April 2017 at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester where they will also receive their prize.

The Prole Laureate Poetry Competition, 2016

Many thanks to all those who entered - and special thanks to our judge, Kate O'Shea. The quality and range of entries was excellent. We're very lucky editors! Winning poems are below with the judges comments.

First Prize - £200 and publication - Sharon Black, Fishing.

Runner up - £50 and publication - Mary Gilonne, Knot Collector

Runner up - £50 and publication - Rachael Smart, Butchery

Deadline: Closed (1ST OCTOBER 2016)

Welcome to the Resurgence Poetry Prize 2016

Rules: www.resurgenceprize.org/rules

The Resurgence Poetry Prize is the world’s first major ‘ecopoetry’ award. Three prizes will be awarded each year for original and previously unpublished ecopoems in English.

With a first prize of £5,000 for the best single poem embracing ecological themes, the award ranks amongst the highest of any English language single poem competition. Second prize is £2,000 and third prize £1,000

Note: only women may enter.

Deadline: (31st August 2016)
Results: by 30th October
Judge: ALISON BRACKENBURY

Winners invited to a London reading.

Details: www.secondlightlive.co.uk/news.shtml#Comp16

South Bank Poetry’s yearly poetry competition for London poems closed on the 21st June 2016.

Winners and commended poets will be announced as soon as possible. Please sign up to our newsletter for further information.

Deadline: 19th May 2017

Prizes: 1st £400, 2nd £150, 3rd £50; best poem by an unpublished poet £100; best poem by a poet under the age of 20 £100

Judge: Jackie Wills.

For further details and rules see link above.

Closed for 2016

Results: www.strokestownpoetry.org/competitions/shortlist

Note: this is a competition for poetry collections

Annual deadline: Closed (31st December)

Deadline: 31st January 2017
Opens: 1st November when detailed rules available

Judge: Mario Petrucci

Three prizes: £500, £250, £100

Winners announced at Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2017.

All shortlisted poets will be invited to read their entries.

www.poetryteignmouth.com

(Teignmouth Poetry Festival – 16 to 19 March 2017)

Deadline: Closed (31st December 2016)
Shortlist: March 2017

www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=8010&page=13

No details of 2016 Competition on the site.

The theme and judges for each annual competition are announced in the autumn with a closing date for entries in early Spring of the following year.

Entrants must be at least 16 years of age, and under 19 years of age and be in full or part-time education at a school, college or other educational institution in the United Kingdom. Students enrolled on higher education courses are not eligible to enter the competition.

Eve Jackson wins 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize (2016)
Adjudicator Catherine Smith has awarded the 30th Frogmore Poetry Prize to Eve Jackson from the Isle of Wight for her poem ‘Calves on a Carousel’.

Deadline: Closed (30th November 2016)

Shortlist: late January on website

Judge: Mary Noonan

1st prize: €1000, week's residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and publication in Southword Literary Journal plus travelling expenses to Cork Spring Poetry Festival.

The deadline for the 2016 Betjeman Poetry Prize was on 31st July. Our post bag swelled with entries from 170 new schools and a wider reach across the UK than ever before!

Deadline: March 20th 2017

Prizes: 1st £250, 2nd £50, Otley-only £25

Judge: Matthew Hedley Stoppard, Otley Town Poet

For further details and rules see link above.

The competition deadline is midnight on (31 August 2016)

The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to launch its 2016 International Poetry Competition to celebrate the power of poetry across the world!

This year’s judge is Daljit Nagra

The competition is open to both new and established poets aged 18 and over from across the globe, and has two categories:

ESL category (open to all poets over 18 years of age who write in English as a second language

Open category (open to all poets over 18 years of age).

The winners of each category will receive £1000 and both runners-up £200.

Deadline: (31st January 2017)

The Plough Prize 2016 Open Poetry Competition

Judge: Philip Gross

1st prize £1,000, 2nd prize £500, 3rd prize £250

2016: Many thanks to everyone who entered our competition.

We will be announcing the results in September!

The ninth annual Red Shed Poetry Competition

Deadline: 29th April 2017

Prizes: 1st £100, 2nd £50, Wakefield Postcode Prize £25

Judge: Di Slaney

Award ceremony: Sunday 28th May

For further details and rules see link above.

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Submit: http://www.therialto.co.uk/pages/about/the-magazine/submissions/

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postal and online submissions: no limit on poem length: no submission windows: simultaneous submissions allowed

The founding editors, Michael Mackmin among them, believed in a ‘Republic of Poetry’, an inclusive and diverse world of poetry, one that was open to experiment in form and content. We strive to keep this vision alive.

The magazine appears three times a year and each issue, with its spacious A4 pages, has fifty or so poems, an editorial and occasional, commissioned, prose pieces. Most of the space is occupied by the best new poems we can find, all wrapped up in our famously vibrant beautiful covers.

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Pamphlet Competition

www.therialto.co.uk/pages/pamphlet-competition

Deadline: Closed (30th November 2016)

Results: February/March 2017

Judge: Hannah Lowe

1st prize: publication of the winning pamphlet + launch reading + up to £200 travel expenses

Deadline: 15th May 2017

Prizes: £150 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd): the author of the 1st prize poem will also be awarded The Jim Johnston Chanctonbury Cup.

Adjudicator: Janet Sutherland

All entrants must be living, studying or currently working in E.Sussex, W.Sussex or Brighton.

Organised by the Slipstream Poets.

For rules and further details see link above.

TEMPLAR SUBMISSIONS AND AWARDS INFORMATION

TEMPLAR POETRY offers submission opportunities for poets leading to publication in our full collections, our ground breaking range of poetry pamphlets and Iota Poetry magazine

Short Quarterly Portfolio Pamphlets: http://templarpoetry.com/products/templar-quarterly-portfolio-award

iOTA Shot Pamphlet AWARD 2017: http://templarpoetry.com/products/ishot-short-pamphlet-award-submission

Full length Pamphlets and annual anthology from our Pamphlet, Collection and Anthology Awards. CURRENTLY CLOSED

THE ANNUAL STRAID COLLECTION AWARD:

http://templarpoetry.com/products/straid-collection-award

Deadline: 21st March 2017

New and established poets are invited to submit a full length collection for consideration in the sixth Straid Collection Awards

We are a major poetry publisher with an output of around fifteen new titles each year. Templar Award poets are published in our superbly designed and produced books, invited to read to read their work at our live events and to participate in our archive recording programme which broadcasts selected recordings online on our Poetry Live page.

Deadline: (15th September)

The Timothy Corsellis Poetry Prize asks young writers aged 14-25 to respond to the life and/or work of a small selection of Second World War poets: Keith Douglas, Sidney Keyes, Alun Lewis, John Jarmain, Henry Reed and Timothy Corsellis. This year, we have expanded the list of Second World War poets to also include the Russian author Anna Akhmatova.

We are also once more running our Young Critics Prize, for short essays of 500-1,500 words exploring which three poets (Keith Douglas, Sidney Keyes, Alun Lewis, John Jarmain, Henry Reed, Anna Akhmatova or Timothy Corsellis) are most likely to be read in twenty years’ time, and why. We received some really thoughtful, searching and innovative essays last year, and we’re hoping you will impress us again. If you’re looking for inspiration, why not read last year’s winning essay, ‘Writing the Future-Postscript: The Importance of WWII Poets in the ‘Remote Age’’ by Elizabeth Huang.

Deadline: 30th April 2017

Prizes: £200 (first prize), £75 (second prize), £25 (third prize). All winning and commended poems will be published on the Tools for Solidarity website.

Awards Night will be on Friday 9th June 2017 as part of Belfast Book Festival

Judges: Poets Maria McManus (We are Bone, The Cello Suites, Reading the Dog) and Deirdre Cartmill (The Return of the Buffalo, Midnight Solo)

For rules, further details see link.

(All entries must be received by 6.00pm on 28th August 2016. Very best of luck!)

Rules: www.torbaypoetryfestival.co.uk/competition/#rules

£700 FIRST PRIZE, plus free weekend at the poetry festival, (27th – 31st Oct 2016), including accommodation and Festival Pass.

£400 second prize plus a free Festival Pass.

£200 third prize plus ticket for the Festival supper for two.

Winners to be announced at the PRIZE-WINNERS’ PARTY on Saturday 29th October, at the Torbay Poetry Festival, Livermead Cliff Hotel,Torquay, Devon where short-listed poets will be invited to read their poems.

Winners of the Torriano Competition 2015/16. Many thanks to all who entered the Torriano Poetry Competition. Judged by Ann Drysdale

1st Ian McEwen (Bedford) Rooks in the Wind
2nd Gill Learner (Reading) In Consideration of Sticks
3rd M. Lee Alexander (USA). Local Hussy at the Kilkenny Village Fete, 1722

Deadline: June 21st 2016
Results: w/c August 8th
Winners Reading: October 31st

Deadline: passed for 2016

Winners: 12th August 2016

Winning poems on site: 16th September

Deadline: 31st July 2017

Line limit: 40 lines

Sole Judge: Sarah Howe

Prizes: 1st, £1000; 2nd, £500; 3rd £250

Shortlist announced: 18th September; winners announced: 14th October 2017, at a special reading/ceremony at the Winchester Poetry Day

For more details see link above.

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Online entries, see: www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org

Postal entries: Winchester Poetry Prize, c/o 41 Nuns Road, Hyde, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7EF