The 2019 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize is open until August 31, 2019.

Judge: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal.

There are no limitations in form or content; they are interested in everything from traditional forms to free verse to lyric essay to flash fiction.

The winner will receive $750 and the runner-up will receive $500.

Submit up to three poems / pieces (five pages maximum) per entry. It costs $12 for each entry.

SaveAs Writers are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with a competition

There are two categories to the All Things Moon competition, which invites writing on any aspect of humanity's relationship with the cosmos.

• Poetry. Enter poetry up to 60 lines. The prizes are the £200 Canterbury Christ Church University Poetry Prize, £100, £50. The entry fee is £3 per poem or £8 for three.

• Prose. Enter prose up to 3,500 words. The prizes are the £200 Saveas Writers International Prose Prize, £100, £50. The entry fee is £4 per story or £10 for three.

All entries must be original and unpublished.

The closing date is 31 August.

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We are excited to announce that Anglica is running a Poetry Competition!

The poem should be metrical, and should be no longer than 100 lines, though extracts from longer work are permitted. There are no formal or thematic restraints, and so long as it is written in a discernible metre (or several!), we encourage you to follow your fancy, whether that lead you to the outlandish, the passionate, or even the dull.

Should you need guidance on how to write a metric poem, we suggest, foremost, that you read our guide to prosody in our resources section. For inspiration, we think you can do no better than looking over the poems of John Milton or Shakespeare's Sonnets.

The best poems will feature in our Journal, and in addition the winner shall receive a £50 prize, and one runner up shall receive a prize of £20.

Please email your submission (or questions, should you have any) to henry@anglica.co.uk by midnight on the 1st of December. The results shall be announced before Christmas.

About This Event


Poet Malika Booker joins host and The Verb presenter Ian McMillan and director of the Poetry Society Judith Palmer to judge this year’s BBC Proms Poetry competition and hear the winning entries.

Edited version broadcast later tonight on BBC Radio 3

Tickets available from BBC Studio Audiences: bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows

Doors open from 30 minutes before the event begins; capacity is limited

Image: Malika Booker

The Bedford International Writing Competition is now open for entries. There are two categories: poetry and short stories. Poems will be judged by Nick Everett and short stories will be judged by Eleanor Dryden. An individual award for a short story written by a Bedford-based writer will be judged by Peter Laws. A second individual award will be given to a short story writer aged between 17 and 30.

Prizes:
• First prize: £500
• Second prize: £150
• Third prize: £100
• Young Writers' Prize: £100
• The Bedford Prize: £100

All prizewinning and shortlisted entries will be published in the 2019 anthology.

Entry fees:
• First poem or story: £6
• Three poems or stories: £12
• First poem or story (full-time students only): £4
• Three poems or stories (full-time students only): £8

Deadline: 31st October 2019. Please enter using the link above.

Sole Judge: Ross Cogan



who will read all entries



Closing date for entries. Midnight, 24th August 2019.





1st prize-£600. Runner-up- £300. 5 x commended-£50 each.



The Gloucestershire Prize- £200. (for Gloucestershire residents only).


Postal entries:
Download entry form and postal instructions here



Entry fees: Postal entries; £4 per poem or 3 poems for £10.



Email entries will carry a surcharge for printing costs:



One poem £4.35, two poems £8.70, three poems £11
Email entries:- please go to the bottom of this page for how to enter by email.

Theme: Diversity • Runs from 01.07.19 – 31.08.19 . Judge Andrew McMillan!













We are thrilled to launch our 2019 Verve Poetry Festival competition. As in previous years, there are cash prizes for the top 3 placed poems up for grabs, with 21 further commended poems appearing in an anthology published by our sister press, Verve Poetry Press (alongside four commissioned poems written by local poets!) And as before, all placed, commended and commissioned poets will be invited, along with our judge and host, to appear at our special competition event at Verve Poetry Festival 2020! AND be allowed to stay for all the rest of that day’s readings for FREE! What’s not to love???
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2019 International Poetry Prize



Poetry sales in the UK are on the rise, and it's in no small part to you wonderful writers and readers out there. We're celebrating all things poetry with our second annual Poetry Prize, a poetry competition that's on the lookout for the best and bravest emerging voices in poetry! Accepting all genres and forms, and offering personalised feedback on each entry and publication for the shortlist, this is a poetry competition held by poets, for poets.



Special Guest Judge: TBC



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•Entry Length: 1 Poem, 40 Lines


•Entry Fee: £10


•Grand Prize: £500



•Entry Deadline: 28th August 2019


•Longlist Announced: 1st November 2019


•Winners Announced: 16th November 2019

First Collection Pamphlet Competition

£25.00


We are looking for Three New Poets who will have a debut pamphlet published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press and receive 100 copies of their collection.

Hosted by Tavistock Library and supported by Tavistock Heritage Trust as part of ‘Tavistock’s 1st Gothic and Neo-Gothic Celebration – Literature, Art, Architecture, Theatre, Film and Creative Fun.’

From Saturday the 12th of October and culminating in a market and author event on Saturday the 19th of October 2019.

This new celebration aims to encompass writing, film, drama and art activities. There will be a Gothic market for writers and traders to showcase their work and a range of related creative events.

Theme: A poem in the gothic tradition incorporating folklore and myth.

Prizes: A cash prize will be offered to the overall winner 30% of all entry receipts will form the prize fund. There will also be a second prize of 30% of all the entry fees awarded to a ‘Gothic’ poem based around Tavistock and incorporating its Gothic and Neo-Gothic Heritage. Additional runners-up prizes of books will also be awarded. The prize winners will be notified approximately two weeks prior to the prize giving. The remaining 40% of the entry fees will be used for administration costs and for festival and library events.

Presentation of the Prizes: The results will be announced, and the prizes presented at a special event.

Judging: The judging will be in two stages: a final short list of poems will be judged by a panel of librarians, authors and publishers. Shortlisted entries will be ranked by a final judging panel.

Tips: The judges will be looking for interesting and original

The competition deadline is 11pm BST/10pm GMT on Monday 2 September 2019. It costs £5 to submit one poem or £4 per poem for more than three entries. Each poet can enter a maximum of ten poems. Please follow the instructions in the Oxford Brookes Shop. All entries must be unpublished work. Please read the full competition criteria and terms and conditions before entering.

There are two steps to entering the competition:
1.Please visit the Brookes Shop and click on 'Book Event'. Then you can register as a new customer and pay for your entry/entries.
2.Once you have paid, please e-mail your poems to poetrycomp@brookes.ac.uk

Please note that entries must comprise one poem per document and be submitted as a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx), Rich Text Format file (.rtf) or as a PDF file (.pdf). Poems by EAL poets can be entered for consideration either in the EAL or the Open category. All entrants need to include either EAL or OPEN in the top right hand corner of each entry. For more guidance on submission, please visit our terms and conditions page.



You will receive an automatic e-mail in response, confirming that we have received your poem/s. Please note that there is no entry form for this competition. The Poetry Centre will match the details you submit via the Shop with your e-mailed poems.

If you have questions about the competition, please consult our FAQs page. If your question isn’t answered there, contact us at: poetrycomp@brookes.ac.uk

You can find out about last year’s competition and the winning poems of 2018 here.

The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is based within the Department of English and Modern Languages at Oxford Brookes University. The Centre publishes poetry pamphlets through ignitionpress and hosts an annual programme of events for members of staff, students and the local community including conferences, research seminars, workshops, exhibitions and community projects. Why not sign up for our Weekly Poem to receive a free contemporary poem in your inbox each week and news of our other activities?











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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!

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National Poetry Day Competition





A Dempsey & Windle competition leading up to National Poetry Day.

Three book prizes to the value of £30 for the best three poems submitted.

The 20 best poems will be published in an anthology and a copy given to each of the contributors.

Topic for poems: Free choice of subject, or use the national theme: Truth.

Three winners will be announced on 3 October at the Cranleigh Arts Centre.

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

Categories: Open and English as an Additional Language. Deadline: 2 September 2019 (23:00 BST/22:00 GMT). £1000 to winners.

The competition is open to both new and established poets aged 18 and over from across the globe and has two categories:
◾Open category (open to all poets aged 18 years and over)
◾English as an Additional Language (EAL) category (open to all poets aged 18 and over who write in English as an Additional Language)

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

We are absolutely delighted that this year's judge is the internationally-acclaimed and award-winning author Jackie Kay.

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Healing Words

Have you experienced mental health problems, or are you a family member or friend of someone who has?

We’re inviting you to enter our poetry competition, Healing Words, which is back for its second year.

Actress Joanna Scanlan, and jazz musician Gill Manly, are amongst the six judges for the competition. You can meet all our judges here, and watch Joanna and Gill’s video introductions to Healing Words

Poetry Competition 2019

Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2019

First Prize (£500 – Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year, 2019)

Second Prize (£250)

Third Prize (£150)

Winners and seven runners-up will be invited to read their poetry at the Manchester Literature Festival event in October

We are inviting you to send us poems for a competition in aid of the Lord Whisky Sanctuary. The theme of this year’s competition is SANCTUARY. This theme can be interpreted as you wish, e.g. a rescue centre for animals or human victims, a shelter for refugees, a sacred place, the abstract idea of a place of safety, a narrative poem about someone seeking safety, sanctuary that’s found in love etc.




Prizes: First prize of 30% of total entry fees received. Last year’s prize was £240. Second prize of 10% and third prize of 5%


Two further prizes of 2.5% of total entry fees for a poem on an animal sanctuary.and its work One of these prizes will be reserved for a previously unpublished poet. A list of shortlisted poems and poets will be published.




Entry fee: £5 per poem. Entry is by donation to the Sanctuary (see rules for further details on how to submit). 50% of all proceeds will be used by the Sanctuary for the care of the animals. Last year the competition raised over £400 for the charity and gave total prizes of over £400.




Judge: award-winning poet Derek Sellen, the current Canterbury Poet of the Year.

Derek’s work has won various prizes and been published widely over many years. Recent successes include first prize in Poets Meet Politics 2014, Obheal 2015, Poetry Pulse 2017 and prize-winner in Poetry on the Lake 2017 and Wirral Festival 2018. You can see examples of Derek’s work at http://www.poetrykit.org/CITN/citn%20164.htm




Poems must be 40 lines or less. The results will be published on this page by August 14th

Are you someone who enjoys writing poetry? Or perhaps you have a friend or relative who is a talented poet? If so, why not enter our competition?

As well as having your poem published in our ‘Voices’ blog, and shared on social media, you will also have the opportunity to win a prize. All entries will be shortlisted at the end of September 2019 and the winner, and two runners up, will be announced on 2nd November 2019.

The winner will receive a prize of book tokens for the sum of £100, whilst each runner up will receive book tokens for the sum of £50.

Prole pamphlet competition, 2019



We are open to submissions of short collections of poetry for our pamphlet competition from 1st May.



We are looking for a work that epitomises the values of Prole: writing that engages, challenges and entertains the reader.



Details

Submissions will be open from 1st May until 31st August, 2019.



Submissions should not have been published as a collection elsewhere, but individual poems within the collection may have been previously published. Please acknowledge these so we can give credit.



The collection should be no longer than 35 pages of A5 at point 9 font size, with each poem starting on a new page.



Each entry will cost £12, or £20 for two entries. Please pay below using the PayPal options or send a cheque, as detailed below.

Submissions open for the 2019 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition

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Submissions open for the 2019 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition



Submissions are now being accepted for the 2019 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition.


Red Line Book Festival are calling on aspiring poets to submit their work for the 2019 Red Line Book Festival poetry competition.

Now in its seventh year, the prestigious competition attracts hundreds of entries from all across the island of Ireland annually. The 2018 winner was Linda McKenna for her poem Unsettled.

The winning poet will win a cash prize of €300. There is also a cash prize of €200 for second place and €100 for third place. Shortlisted poets will be invited to read their poem as part of the 2019 Red Line Book Festival, which runs 7th - 13th October.

This year, Red Line Book Festival are honoured to have Nell Regan, an award-winning poet, non-fiction writer and translator, to judge the competition entries.

The closing date for entries is Friday 23rd August 2019 and entries will only be accepted by email. The shortlist will be announced on Friday 20th September 2019, with the winner announced during this year’s Red Line Book Festival.

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Robert Graves Poetry Prize

The Rober Graves Poetry Prize is a collaboration between the Roehampton Poetry Centre and Wimbledon Bookfest, and is co-sponsored by Marcus Beale Architects.

The prize is judged by literary agent Peter Straus and Professor Paul O'Prey, former assistant to Robert Graves.



£1000 will be awarded to the winning entrant and £100 will be awarded to two runner ups. All three poems will be published in Poem magazine.

Entries must be unpublished, original poems written in English and must be no longer than 40 lines. The entry fee is £5 per poem, and poems must be submitted by 23rd August 2019.

To enter, and more information, please visit wimbledonbookfest.org/News/RobertGravesPrize

Spilled Milk Magazine is an online literary magazine that publishes fiction and poetry. We publish literature that is paired best with a cup of coffee.

GPS Annual Poetry Competition - New for 2019! Launching for 2019 is our new general poetry competition which will be open to submissions from poets of all levels.

Competition is now open. We are accepting poems on the theme of ‘Elements’!

This year will see the Bangor Poetry Competition take on a slightly new format. We are now accepting poems on the theme of ‘Elements’ which is part of Aspects Literary Festival.

You can email your poems to thebangorliteraryjournal@hotmail.com with the heading ‘7th BANGOR POETRY COMPETITION- Your name’ .

You can enter up to six poems per person. The submission donation for poems is as follows: One poem £4/ Three poems £10. Please pay the submission donation following the PayPal link above and include your PayPal transaction number in the body of the email.

All poems must be in English and previously unpublished (they should not have been published online, in print, on social media or blogs). They should be no longer than 40 lines (not including stanza breaks) and can be in any style.

The East Riding Festival of Words 2019 poetry competition is now open for entries. This year's theme is 'My Mind, My Thoughts'. Entries will be judged by a panel of published Yorkshire poets, led by James Nash. Poems are submitted anonymously, so each entry is judged on its own merits.
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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. The 2019 National Poetry Competition is judged by Mona Arshi, Helen Mort and Maurice Riordan. You can enter the 2019 competition online here.

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 closes at midnight Friday 7th September this year.

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.
There’ll be a prize giving and readings of the winning and short listed poems at Ye Old Rose and Crown in late October.

Free to enter.

Lichfield Cathedral is inviting new poems inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing on the theme “light in our darkness”.

The poems will be displayed in the cathedral as part of its first poetry festival this autumn.

Prizes: £100, £50 and £25.

Judges include Michael Symmons Roberts.

Only poems of 40 lines or less will be considered.


•The poems may be in any style and cover any subject.


•Work deemed to be offensive will not be considered.


•All entries must be the work of the poet submitting.


•Previously published poems are not permitted.


•We will not be accepting translations of poetry.


•No changes can be made to poems once they have been submitted.


•Any entries in violation to the above will be disqualified.


•No refunds will be given once work has been submitted.


•The decision from our judges is final.


•No correspondence regarding entries will be entered into.




Entries can be made online via Pay Pal or by post

Entries can be made online via Pay Pal or by post

To enter the competition, please pay the appropriate fee on Paypal.

Email your submissions to submissions@yafflepress.co.uk

Please submit all poems on one document via a word/docx. attachment.

Please also include your name, contact details and address in the body of the email.

No names should appear on the submitted document.


Alternatively, you can post entries to:

5 - 7 Laycock Lane, Laycock, Keighley. BD20 0PH

along with a cheque with the appropriate fee, made payable to Mark Connors.

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

FIRST PRIZE £600
SECOND PRIZE £300
THIRD PRIZE £100
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 30TH 2019

Are you someone who enjoys writing poetry? Or perhaps you have a friend or relative who is a talented poet? If so, why not enter our competition?

As well as having your poem published in our ‘Voices’ blog, and shared on social media, you will also have the opportunity to win a prize. All entries will be shortlisted at the end of September 2019 and the winner, and two runners up, will be announced on 2nd November 2019.

The winner will receive a prize of book tokens for the sum of £100, whilst each runner up will receive book tokens for the sum of £50.

[Deadline June 30th]
This year’s Open Poetry judge is Simon Armitage, an award-winning poet who also writes extensively for television, theatre and radio. A former probation officer, he is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and was also elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (2015-2019). He received the 2018 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. His new poetry collection is Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic

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.

Competition Details

This annual competition is now in its sixteenth year and alternates between poetry and short stories. The competition in 2018 requires poetry to be entered.

Entry is free and open to anyone in the world over the age of 16 years. Individuals are limited to entering two poems only.
First Prize

A writing course at the Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre or a UK Arvon Writing Centre. The winner will be announced at an event to be held at the AK Bell Library in Perth on Friday 26th April 2019.

Second Prize

£100 Book Token.

Local Prize

A £50 book token will be awarded for the best work from a resident of Perth and Kinross.

Competition Rules
•The deadline for all entries is Friday 1st February 2019.
•All entrants must be 16 years of age or over.
•Poems must not exceed 40 lines.
•A maximum of two poems may be submitted.
•All entries must be typed or word processed, on one side of the paper only.
•Two copies of each poem submitted must be provided.
•Entries may be in English or Scots.
•The competition is open to anyone throughout and outside the United Kingdom.
•All entries are judged anonymously and the name of the writer must not appear on the manuscript.
•Poems must not have been published, self-published, published on a website, broadcast or featured among the winners in another competition before 1st February 2019.
•Competition entries cannot be returned - please do not include a pre-paid envelope.
•The Judge’s decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into.
•Alterations cannot be made to poems once they have been submitted.
•Entries must be accompanied by an entry form (download below).
•There is no entry fee for this competition.
•Local entries (writers living in Perthshire at time of entry) can also be additionally entered for the local Soutar prize. Please tick the box on the entry form if this applies.
•It is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that the above rules are adhered to.

First Prize: £1,000

2nd Prize: £500

3rd Prize: £250

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​Judge: Helen Mort

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Entry fee: £5 for first poem, £4 for subsequent poems

Closing Date: 31 July 2019

This year’s open poetry competition will be adjudicated by Anna Saunders, Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
Poems should be no longer than 40 lines.
Four prizes will be awarded: 1st prize £200; Two Runners Up £50 each; Special Wirral prize £50 for a poet living or working in Wirral.
Entry: £4 per poem or £10 for 3 poems
Enter online and full details at www.wirralpoetryfestival.org.uk or by post. The closing date for the receipt of poetry competition entries is 23.59 hours on Friday 22nd March 2019. Winners will be notified by 19th April 2019, and invited to attend a prize-giving event during our First ever Wirral Poetry Festival Weekend 11th- 12th May 2019