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.

This year’s festival and competition will be celebrating the work of R. S. Thomas. The competition will be judged by the poet Glyn F Edwards and writer Manon Steffan Ros.

The winners will be announced at the open mic event on Saturday, July 21st 2018 at the Cybi Festival, The Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead.

First prize - £100
Commended - £30

•Online entry: 2018 Hippocrates Open and Health Professional Awards
•Judges: 2018 Hippocrates Prize
•Rules: 2018 Hippocrates Prize Open & Health Professional entries
•Online entry for 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine
•Rules: 2018 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize entries
•Payment for entries for the 2018 Hippocrates Prize: Health Professional and Open categories
•Payment for 2018 Hippocrates Prize Young Poet entries
•Hippocrates Press - orders by 2018 Hippocrates entrants

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).

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

Closing date AUGUST 25th 2018

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 at https://tinyurl.com/competition18 or

SEND SAE to Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition, 49 Pegasus Court, St. Stephen's Road, Cheltenham, GL51 3GB, UK

the web site takes you to a page like this..
"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.

For poems of any length on the theme 'Home'. The competition will be judged by poet and editor, Lucy Turnbull of Optimum Poetry Magazine.


•First prize £75


•Second £50

entries by July 25th

All poems will be considered for the 2018 end of year anthology.

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

The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018 is open for entries and will be judged by Caroline Bird and Daljit Nagra.

The competition is open to any writer aged 11-17. Entries must be written in English and it is completely free to enter.

Past winners include Sarah Howe, Jay Bernard, Richard Osmond, Caroline Bird, Helen Mort and many more!





Enter now and you could win mentoring, a writing course, publication in a prestigious anthology, and much more.

The competition is run by The Poetry Society, and is now in it's 20th year.

Tue 31 Jul 2018

Free

Deadline: 15 Aug 2018

The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry, formerly known as the Resurgence Prize, is a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes.

The first prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000 and third prize is £1,000. All three winners plus two runners-up will attend a ten-day residency at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Ireland. The deadline is midnight, August 15th 2018.

The winners will be announced at a celebratory reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival, 2nd – 4th November.

The Guernsey Literary Festival, together with the generous support of Guernsey Post, presents a competition that could deliver your work to thousands of readers.

Winning entries will be displayed
•on Guernsey buses
•a smaller selection will take part in a second, larger display at Guernsey Airport, then all over the islands.

Download 2018 information leaflet

Open to poets who have not had a full collection or pamphlet published.

TWO winners will have their debut collection published by Indigo Dreams Publishing and receive a royalty contract plus 20 free copies.

Submission: 15 poems to 40 lines max.

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

TWO winners will have their debut collection published by Indigo Dreams Publishing and receive a royalty contract plus 20 free copies

Submission: 15 poems to 40 lines max.

Entry Fee: £14 per block of poems

Closing Date: 31st July 2018

See full submission rules at

http://www.indigodreams.co.uk/indigo-first-collection/4594295354

Postal submissions to

Indigo-First, 24 Forest Houses, Halwill, Beaworthy, Devon, EX21 5UU

The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to launch its 2018 International Poetry Competition to celebrate the power of poetry across the world!

Categories: Open and English as an Additional Language. Deadline: 6 August 2018 (11pm BST/10pm 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.
The competition deadline is 11pm on Monday 6 August 2018. It costs £5 to submit one poem or £4 per poem for more than three entries. Entrants may submit a maximum of ten poems, following 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

A call for poems on the theme of Liberty: a celebration of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound The Keats-Shelley Prize is an annual competition for poems and essays on Romantic themes. Inaugurated in 1998, the Prize encourages all adult writers (over 18) to respond creatively to the work of the Romantics. Writers aged 16-18 are invited to enter the Young Romantics Prize. In 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley began work on his first and most famous hymn to Liberty – ‘Prometheus Unbound’, based on the myth of the chained Titan Prometheus, who had stolen fire from the Gods of Olympus to give to mankind. “The nations thronged around, and cried aloud, As with one voice, ‘Truth, Liberty, and love!’” It was the forerunner to his ‘Ode to Liberty’ written two years later.The Prize Chair is Liz Lochhead, The Judges’ Panel for Poets will consist of Matthew Sweeney and Jo Shapcott; and for Essayists of Professor Simon Bainbridge and Professor Sharon Ruston.
Entry Fee: £Free to enter
Contact: For full details and entry forms see http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/the-keats-shelley-prizes/the-keats-shelley-prize/keats-shelley-prize-2018

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.

Magma is celebrating its 25thanniversary next year and in the run-up to this milestone we are inviting you to enter our first ever pamphlet competition, with the chance of getting published and a celebratory launch reading in 2019.

1stprize: publication of the winning pamphlet + launch reading.

Poets on the shortlist of 10 will each get a paragraph of feedback. The winner and 3 others will have a poem published in Magma.All shortlisted poets will have a poem published on our website.

Deadline: Tuesday 25thSeptember 2018

Judge: Magma Editors

£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

Competition rules: Poems must be in English, unpublished, and of no more than 40 lines in length. There is an entry charge of £4 per poem or £10 for 3 poems.

We are delighted that Gaia Holmes will be judging the Half Moon Books Otley Poetry Prizes competition for 2018 and that we are working with Wildlife Friendly Otley with the theme of: WILDLIFE

“Interpret the theme in whatever way you wish. Send us poems about rivers, trees, birds, bees and the natural things that enrich our world, poems about wild lives and wild places, or the wild life and deep, dark forests of the imagination.”

Gaia Holmes

Prizes: 1st – £250, 2nd – £50, Only-Otley Prize £25

Closing date 2nd July

Entry fee: £4 for one poem, £10 for 3 poems.

The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is delighted to launch its 2018 International Poetry Competition to celebrate the power of poetry across the world!

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. You can enter the competition here (or via this link: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/poetry-centre/international-poetry-competition/).

We are very excited to announce that this year’s judge is the celebrated and award-winning poet Kayo Chingonyi, whose first full-length collection, Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus), recently won the prestigious £30,000 Dylan Thomas Award.

The competition deadline is 11pm on Monday 6 August 2018. It costs £5 to s_ubmit one poem or £4 per poem for more than three entries. Please read the full competition terms and conditions before entering, which you can find via the entry page on our website.

Due to a drop in sponsorship, prizes and overall entries in the last couple of years, we have decided to roll over all entries that are received during 2016, 2017 and 2018 into one big Poetry Competition that closes on 30th September 2018.



All entries will kept over and used for that competition – unless you advise us that you do not wish us to do so.



The competition is free to enter. All you have to do is submit your poem by email to pendlewarpoetry@gmail.com along with you name and location.



There is a maximum of two poems per person.



Full competition rules will be posted on here once we get the new website up and working properly – so please check back!



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We are pleased to announce the 6th poetry competition run by Poets and Players, one of Manchester’s leading organisers of poetry and music events. OUR JUDGE FOR 2018 WILL BE PASCALE PETIT 1st Prize: £600 2nd Prize: £200 3rd Prize: £100 Commended poets at the judge’s discretion. Closing Date: Wednesday 28th February 2018 Winners will be informed by Friday 12th April 2018 and will be invited to read alongside Pascale Petit at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester where they will also receive their prize.



Entry fee £4 for one poem or £10 for three poems





Entry by post or email. For full rules and details please see https://poetsandplayers.co/competition/competition-2018-closing-date-28-february-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.

We are, as ever, open regarding style, content and length. What we are after is poetry that epitomises the editorial values of Prole: to make writing engaging, accessible, entertaining and challenging. Quality is all. All work must be the original work of the writer and be unpublished. Prizes: Winner - £200, publication in Prole 25 in April 2018 & publication on the Prole website. 2 x runner up prizes: £50, publication in Prole 25 & publication on the Prole website. All entries will be read by our judge, Kate Garrett.
Entry Fee: £3 for the first entry, £2 for every subsequent entry
Contact: For full details and how to enter, please visit: http://prolebooks.co.uk/poetry%20competition.html

We are looking for short collections of poetry that epitomise the values of Prole: to make writing engaging, entertaining and challenging.



Entries should be 15 to 30 A5 pages long with each poem starting on a new page. There are no constraints on style or content, we're just after your very best quality work. Entries should be in English and not previously published as a collection.



This year our judge is the wonderful Mab Jones. Details below.



Details

Entry period

We are open to entries from March 1st 2018 to 30th June 2018.

Prize

The winner will receive £100 and 15 copies.

Please be aware, we are active editors and will work with the winner to ensure the pamphlet is the very best it can possibly be.


Entry fee

There is a fee of £12 for one entry and £20 for two entries. You can use the PayPal button, below (preferred) or by cheque, made out in GBP only to Phil Robertson.

Sending entries

Please send entries as a Word attachment to submissionspoetry@prolebooks.co.uk and include 'pamphlet' in the submission line and quote your PayPal transaction number - or send by mail to:

Brett Evans

15 Maes-y-Dre

Abergele,

Conwy

Wales

LL22 7HW

Try to avoid using your name on the body of the submission to make it easier for us to make sure entries are sent anonymously.

Winner announced

Thewinner will be announced and the pamphlet launched on October 1st, 2018.








Please select entry type

Prole Books are looking for short collections of poetry that epitomise the values of Prole: to make writing engaging, entertaining and challenging.

Entries should be 15 - 30 A5 pages long with each poem starting on a new page. There are no constraints on style or content, just your very best quality work. Entries should be in English and not previously published as a collection.

The winner will receive £100 and 15 copies.





Please be aware, Prole are active editors and will work with the winner to ensure the pamphlet is the very best it can possibly be.

This year's judge is Mab Jones.

Generously sponsored by Mocca Moocho cafe

Sole adjudicator: Maria Isakova Bennett
Closing date: Saturday 28th April, 2018
Prizes: 1st— £100 2nd—£50
​Short listed poems - £10
Wakefield Postcode prize—£25

Sandwich Arts Week inaugurate three competitions in one. The competition is divided into three sections so please be clear which you wish to enter:





•Poetry Prize (under 18s)


•Local Poet Prize (for residents of East Kent)


•Sandwich Poet 2018 Prize


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£4 for 1 poem | £10 for 3

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.

Poetry Competition Terms & Conditions

Entries must be in English, but can be in a dialect, accent or patois (must be understandable by the judges). No profanities, please!

They must be your own work and cannot be a translation of another poet’s work.

They must not have been previously published, though we will allow entries that have appeared in school magazines or journals.

You can enter as many poems as you like. The fee for entry is £3 per poem or £10 for 5.

Payable by cheque to Sydenham Arts Ltd. The closing date for receipt of entries is 31 July 2018. Winners will be notified by 13 August 2018. Send your poems and payment to Sydenham Arts Ltd Heroes & Heroines, Sydenham Arts, 44a Sydenham Road, London S26 5QX.

Categories

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

Details:
International open competition founded in 1973. Poetry Catergory: 1st prize £5,000 / 2nd prize £1,000 / 3rd prize £500 plus ten highly commended awards of £100. Poems max 42 lines. Poetry Judge Dalgit Nagra. See Bridport Prize website for details of other writing categories and prizes for short stories, flash fiction and first novel award. The winning and highly commended poems, short stories and flash fiction are published in an annual anthology.
Entry Fee: £9 for each poem submitted. You may enter as may poems as you wish.
Contact: Submissions can be made online http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/poetry

In this its 60th year, The Exmoor Society is pleased to announce the launch of its Poetry Competition. The competition is open to anyone aged over 16. Poems on any aspect of Exmoor will be warmly received. Poems must have been inspired by Exmoor in some way which might, for example, be topical, historical, archaeological, literary, recreational, spiritual, relate to flora or fauna, dark skies, and so forth. Judging will be by a panel of poets. This competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over at the time of entering.There will be a first prize of £75; a second prize of £50; a third prize of £25.Poems must be of no more than 40 lines, not including spaces or title. All poems or groups of poems must be accompanied by an entry form.
Entry Fee: £5, each additional poem £2
Contact:

For full details and entry form see https://www.exmoorsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ES-Poetry-Competition-2018-Terms-and-Conditions.pdf

Completed form, poems and payment to The Exmoor Society, 34 High St, Dulverton TA22 9DJ

Details:
Three categories, poetry (any number of poems, no more than 40 lines each), short stories (any number of stories between 1,500 and 2000 words each) and flash fiction (any number of stories up to 500 words). Prizes in each category: 1st prize £100, 2nd prize £25, 3rd prize £10. Poetry judge: Marjorie Lofti Gill.
Entry Fee: £3 per poem, £3 per flash fiction story, £5 per short story.
Contact:

Full competition details and how to enter can be found on the Interpreter's House website: http://www.theinterpretershouse.com/competition
Closing Date: 31-Jan-18
Details:
Prizes:First Prize £500, Second Prize £150,Third Prize £100. Poems must be submitted in English and should be a maximum of 50 lines. Entries must be the original work of the entrant. Translations of the work of other poets will not be accepted. Poems must not have been published or be currently submitted for publication. Each poem must by typed in black on one side of A4 using a clear font such as Times or Arial 12 point. Judge Zaffar Kunial
Entry Fee: £4 for a single poem £10 for three poems
Contact: See website for full details and online and postal entry : http://www.theinterpretershouse.com/competition

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

Magma is celebrating its 25thanniversary next year and in the run-up to this milestone we are inviting you to enter our first ever pamphlet competition, with the chance of getting published and a celebratory launch reading in 2019.

1stprize: publication of the winning pamphlet + launch reading.

Poets on the shortlist of 10 will each get a paragraph of feedback. The winner and 3 others will have a poem published in Magma.All shortlisted poets will have a poem published on our website.

Deadline: Tuesday 25thSeptember 2018

Judge: Magma Editors

Details: for a poem in English on any subject, maximum 80 lines

Prizes: 1st £1,500, 2nd £300, 3rd £150 and 6 commendations of £25.

Judge: Sinéad Morrissey

Entry: £6 for first poem, £5 thereafter.

Contact: enter on line or by post. Full details http://Mclellanpoetryprize.org.uk or from The Competition Organiser, The Yellow Land, Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran KA27 8PZ, Scotland, UK enclosing s.a.e.

Details: for a poem in English on any subject, maximum 80 lines

Prizes: 1st £1,500, 2nd £300, 3rd £150 and 6 commendations of £25.

Judge: Sinéad Morrissey

Entry: £6 for first poem, £5 thereafter.

Contact: enter on line or by post. Full details http://Mclellanpoetryprize.org.uk or from The Competition Organiser, The Yellow Land, Whiting Bay, Isle of Arran KA27 8PZ, Scotland, UK enclosing s.a.e.

Formerly known as the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize, The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the most lucrative awards in the world for a single unpublished poem. 1st prize €10,000, with 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000. Judged by Daljit Nagra. Award ceremony to take place at Poetry Ireland.
Entry Fee: £12 (Euros) per poem
Contact: See http://www.themothmagazine.com

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.

For previously unpublished poems on any subject. An Open Competition for a poem up to 40 lines plus, new this year, The Ronald Duncan Short Poem Competition – maximum length 10 lines. Both competitions will be judged by Michael Symmons Roberts. The prizes in each category: 1st prize £1,000 – 2nd prize £500 - 3rd prize £250
Entry Fee: £5 per poem in each category.
Contact:

Details and entry forms downloadable from www.theploughprize.co.uk or obtainable by snail mail upon receipt of a sae from The Plough Arts Centre, 9 – 11 Fore Street, Torrington EX38 8HQ.

PRIZES: Publication by smith|doorstop Books; a share of £2,000 cash; a launch reading at The Wordsworth Trust; publication in the North magazine; book vouchers from Inpress Books and more. Entrants are invited to submit a collection of 20-24 paged of poetry. Four winners will be selected by the judges to be published by our award winning imprint, smith|doorstop books. All winners will also receive a share of £2,000, publication in the North magazine, a reading at The Wordsworth Trust and gift vouchers from Inpress Books. All winners will be guaranteed pamphlet publication, however there is also an opportunity to submit,it a full-length manuscript, which if successful will be published as a book in the Autumn of 2018. The laureate Prize, judged by Carol Ann Duffy is a single poem prize that will run alongside the International Book & Pamphlet Competition. All entrants to the main competition will automatically be entered into this prize, which will celebrate and showcase the best single poems by entrants to our main International Book & Pamphlet Competition. Prizes -A share of £2000 cash, a launch reading at the Wordsworth Trust. Judges Liz Berry, David Constantine.
Entry Fee: £28, or £25 for North subscribers, Friends of the Poetry Business and members of the Poetry Society.
Contact: Entries can be submitted by post (with a cheque and completed entry form) or online http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/competition-menu/competition

This year's summer competition is for poetry on any subject.
There are no style or length restrictions but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be selected as a longer one.


1st prize is £100.
2nd prize is £50

ENTER ONLINE
Entry is by email to comps@poetrykit.org after an appropriate fee is paid by Pay Pal to the account of info@poetrykit.org
all entries must be received before midnight MONDAY 27th August 2018
Entries received after this time will be discarded. All entries are judged anonymously so please do not put any identifying features on the poems.

Entry fees are as follows;
1 poem £3.50
3 Poems £8.00
5 poems £10

This year’s judge is acclaimed poet Andrew McMillan.

The closing date for entries is February 25, 2018.

The first prize rises to £600, with a runner-up award of £150, a third prize of £75 and a new, fourth prize of £50.

At the judge’s discretion, up to ten Highly Commended and 15 Commended poems will each win their writer a certificate.

The minimum entry fee is £6 for a single poem; £15 for up to two or three; £17.50 for four; £20 for five. There is no limit to the number of poems that can be submitted.

This inaugural Prose Poem Competition marks the fifteenth anniversary of the much-loved Tongues & Grooves community organisation for poetry and music. Winners and commended poets will be invited to read at a special event on Sunday 25th March 2018, to be held at Portsmouth’s iconic Square Tower. First prize £600, Second prize £200, Third prize £100, seven commendations £25. Judge - Michael Loveday.
Entry Fee: £5 for first prose poem, £4 for subsequent prose poems.
Contact:

More information and online entry: https://tonguesandgrooves.com/2017/03/08/international-prose-poem-2017/

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.

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

FIRST PRIZE £600
SECOND PRIZE £300
THIRD PRIZE £100
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 30TH 2018

Winning and selected poems will be published in the competition anthology. Poets published in the anthology will be invited to read at our poetry afternoon on Saturday, June 30th 2018 at The Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans.

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/

Details:
Prizes: £600, £300, £150, and the Ware Sonnet Prize (£150). Length: up to 50 lines.Anthology for winners and commended poets (£3.50, post free: pre-ordered). Informal prizegiving at Ware Arts Centre, Friday 6 July 2018. Sole judge: John Greening
Entry Fee: £4; 4 poems for £12, then £3 per poem (in the same submission)
Contact:

Entry form available at

http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/comps/ware18.pdf

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

Closing date: midnight on 31 July 2018

Winchester Poetry Prize aims to surprise and delight. Following its launch in 2016, the Winchester Poetry Prize is now an annual competition. This year we are very pleased to welcome Liz Berry as a our judge.
Prizes:
•FIRST PRIZE: £1000
•SECOND PRIZE: £500
•THIRD PRIZE: £250

There is also a prize for the best poem by a Hampshire-based poet.

In addition to receiving cash prizes winners will be invited to read at a special prize-giving event at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 6th October 2018. Winning and commended poems will also be published in a competition anthology.

The competition is open to all entries of original, previously unpublished work

In partnership with Alarms & Excursions and Kirkdale Bookshop, Sydenham Arts’ second annual competition once again provides a platform for writers local and national to share their work with us. This year’s Sydenham Arts Festival brings you the best of emerging talent whilst giving a nod to the most inspirational people in our society. We are looking for stories about our unsung heroes and heroines, and here is your chance to give us their stories through poetry in any style, up to a maximum of forty lines, under the theme Heroes & Heroines. The competition will be judged by local poets, Racheal Joseph and Isabel White. You can enter as many poems as you like. Winners will be notified by 13th August. Prizes: 1st prize £100, 2nd prize £50, 3rd prize £25.
Entry Fee: £3 per poem or £10 for 5, payable by cheque to Sydenham Arts Ltd.
Contact: Send your entries to: You Could Be Heroes Poetry Competition, Sydenham Arts Ltd, 44a Sydenham Road, London SE26 5QX.

For other payment methods and full terms and conditions, visit our website www.sydenhamarts.co.uk/poetryrules.