Invitation to send poems for a competition in aid of the long-established Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary, Kent (reg. charity 283483 ). Poems should be on an animal-related theme – pets, rescue animals, wildlife habitat, endangered species, insects, birds etc. Prize: 30% of all entry fees, a second prize of 10%, two further prizes of 5%, one reserved for a previously unpublished poet. 50% of all entry fees received will be used for the care of animals at the sanctuary. Judge: award-winning poet Derek Sellen. Length: 40 lines or less. Eligibility: unpublished poems written in English by writers over 16 from any country.
Entry Fee: £5 per poem by donation to Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary. Donate at: http://www.lordwhisky.co.uk/donate
Contact: full details are available

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).

Ambit Magazine announces the launch of its 2018 Poetry Competition. The theme for this year will be ‘Home’. The winners will be judged by Malika Booker. The first place prize in each category will be £500, second place £250 and £100 for third.
Deadline: Sun 15 Jul 2018

The Annual Ambit Poetry Competition is now open. Cash prizes of £500, £250 and £100 will be awarded as well as publication in Ambit 234.


We are delighted that Malika Booker will be judging this year and the theme is ‘Home’.

Entry Fee: £6 per poem

The winners will be announced on 1 September.

You can access all the details on the Ambit website

Closing Date: 15 July 2018

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

The ninth Battered Moons Poetry Competition is open to all UK residents aged 18 or over and accepts poems on any topic and style of up to 40 lines. Guest judge Jacob Sam La-Rose and Cristina Navazo-Eguía Newton will both read all the poems.

The 3 winners and 4 commended poets are invited to read their poems at the Poetry Swindon Festival on Saturday 6th October 2018, when Jacob Sam La-Rose will present the prizes and read from his own work. Winning and commended poems will appear in the Battered Moons pamphlet and website.

First prize, £700; second, £200; third, £100, plus four commendations of £25 each. Entry fee: £5 for the first poem and £3.5 thereafter. Closing date for entries is 31st May 2018. On-line and postal entries accepted.

Closing Date: 09 April 2018

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

Theme: ‘Country’. 40 lines max.

Judge: Jeremy Page. Poems must be original and unpublished. Simultaneous submissions can be accepted.

Winners & runners-up will be invited to read their winning poems at the prize-giving evening, June 8, 2018, part of the Binsted Arts Festival (June 8-10, 2018). Winning poems will be published on the Festival website.
For further information, rules and entry form, visit:
http://www.binsted.org/poetry-comp-18

Entry fee: £5 for first poem, £3.50 each for all subsequent poems.

Entries (2 copies of each poem) should be sent to:

Competition Secretary, Shirley Park, Yapton Lane, Walberton, Arundel, BN18 0AN, with a cheque payable to Binsted Arts

Details:
Culture Matters is pleased to announce that the second Bread and Roses Poetry Award, sponsored by Unite, is now open for entries. It is part of our mission to promote a socialist approach to culture. The purpose of the Award is to create new opportunities for working class people to write poetry, and encourage poets to focus on themes which are meaningful to working class people and communities. Enter up to three original, previously unpublished poems in English, each no more than 50 lines long. You must be resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. There will be five prizes of £100 each.Entries should broadly deal with themes relevant to working class life, politics, communities and culture. Winners will be invited to an award ceremony in Durham on 13 July, linked to the Durham Miners’ Gala, with travel and accommodation costs paid. The best poems will be published in an anthology later in 2018.
Entry Fee: £Free and open to anyone regardless of trade union membership.
Contact:

Entries should be sent to info@culturematters.org.uk by midnight on Friday 8 June, or by post to Culture Matters, c/o 8 Moore Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 8QE. For full details

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

Entry is open to all adults over the age of 18 years on 4 October 2018. National and International entries are welcome. Any number of poems may be submitted but no alterations may be made to a poem once it has been submitted.The poem or poem sequence may be on any subject and in any style but must not exceed 60 lines in length excluding title and line breaks. Poems will be sent anonymously to the judging panel: Luigi Marchini (Chairman SaveAS Writers Group) Steve Xerri (Poet of the Year 2017) Katherine Peddie (Assistant Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent) The Winner will be named Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year and receive the University of Kent Prize of £200. £100 will be awarded for the second, £50 for the third places, and £25 will be awarded to the People’s Choice voted for on the night. The Best-Read Poem, as read by the poet, will receive a bottle of Sparkling Wine.
Entry Fee: £5 entry fee paid for each poem.
Contact: Entries may be emailed to tina@canterburyfestival.co.uk or posted/delivered to: Poet of the Year Competition, Festival Office, 8 Orange Street, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2JA

For full details see https://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk/learning-and-participation/poet-of-the-year.aspx

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.

Poems are invited on any subject and style and of any length. Closing date January 31st 2018. Sole judge will be the poet Jenny Lewis.

Prizes:1st prize £150, two further £25 prizes. Fees; £3 per poem, £10 for four.

Postal entries welcome, cheques payable to Edward Thomas Fellowship, sent with your details and the anonymised poem(s) to Margaret Keeping,66 Fairacres Road, Oxford, OX4 1TG.

OR: emailed to margthompson01@gmail.com + fee to the Fellowship’s account, 40-08-21, 11250205 with your initial and surname as reference, Competition as description.

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

The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2018 will win two hundred and fifity guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications. Adjudicator: Janet Sutherland Poems must be in English, unpublished, and not accepted for future publication. Poems should be typed and no longer than forty lines. All shortlisted poems will appear in number 92 of The Frogmore Papers (September 2018),
Entry Fee: £3 per poem. Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to The Frogmore Press.
Contact:

Entries should be sent to: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ.

For full details see http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/

Closing Date: 30 November 2017

Prizes: First: 1000 Euro, Southword journal publication, travel bursary to attend Cork International Poetry Festival, Tyrone Guthrie Centre writers’ retreat; second: E500 & Southword Journal publication , third: E250 and Southword Journal publication

Any theme or topic, 40 lines max.

Judge: Munster Literature Centre Director Patrick Cotter. Poems must be original and unpublished. Simultaneous submissions can be accepted.

Entry fee: 5 Euro per poem, 20 Euro for 5 poems.

Details:
Adjudicators: Carole Bromley and Pauline Kirk.PRIZES: IST – £100 2ND – £50 3RD – £25 For women over 60 only. Those who will reach 60 before the end of June 2018 are eligible. Poems should be up to 40 lines, on any theme, previously unpublished, and not accepted for future publication. Poems to be listed on entry form, together with contact details. No personal details on poem page/s please. Entry forms are available at www.greyhenpress.com or by post from address above. Please enclose sae.
Entry Fee: £3 per poem or 4 for £10. Cheques payable to Grey Hen Press
Contact: No email submission. Poems (2 copies of each please or your entry will be disqualified) accepted by post only, and sent to: Competition 2018, Grey Hen Press, PO Box 269, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 9FE.

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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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

FIRST PRIZE: £1000, a residential course at T? Newydd and an invitation to read at the winners’ event in the 2019 Festival. The competition is open to all entries of original, previously unpublished work across categories for Adults, Young People (12-­17 years) and also Children (11 and under). Children and Young People enter their first poem free.
Entry Fee: ££5.75 for the first poem and £3.50 for each subsequent poem.
Contact: For full details see https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry-competition/

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.

Invitation to send poems for a competition in aid of the long-established Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary, Kent (reg. charity 283483 ). Poems should be on an animal-related theme – pets, rescue animals, wildlife habitat, endangered species, insects, birds etc. Prize: 30% of all entry fees, a second prize of 10%, two further prizes of 5%, one reserved for a previously unpublished poet. 50% of all entry fees received will be used for the care of animals at the sanctuary. Judge: award-winning poet Derek Sellen. Length: 40 lines or less. Eligibility: unpublished poems written in English by writers over 16 from any country.
Entry Fee: £5 per poem by donation to Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary. Donate at: http://www.lordwhisky.co.uk/donate
Contact: full details are available at http://www.lordwhisky.co.uk/news-and-events

Details:
Open internationally to writers and artists. Unpublished poems up to 30 lines based in some way on emotional distress or mental ill health.Top prize 5 copies of the book, and £100. Runners up will also be included in the finished book and will receive 2 copies. Judges for each category include Eve Nortley Colin Kendall and Rowan Brooks.
Entry Fee: £4 per entry
Contact: For full details and how to enter the illustration and flash fiction categories see http://readingroomprojects.wixsite.com/competitionpages

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!

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.

Submissions are open for our annual poetry pamphlet prize, judged by Abegail Morley. Read more about Abegail here. The winning pamphlet will be published by Paper Swans Press and the poet will receive 15 copies plus £30 prize money. Entries cost £10 and are non-refundable.
Submissions accepted: 1st March – 30th June 2018

Rules:

* Open for single-author pamphlets only.
* Please send us 18-24 pages of poems. Poems should be typed in single spacing on one side of A4 paper and in a font size of 12, with each poem on a new page.
* Your pamphlet must have a title which should appear in the header of each page. Please include a front page with your name and email, the pamphlet title and contents. Please don’t put your name or contact details on any of the following pages.
* IMPORTANT — make the name of your document the name of the pamphlet.
* All poems must be your original work. Individual poems may have been published in magazines and anthologies but not in a pamphlet or collection. Poems must be in the English language.
* Simultaneous submissions are allowed but please let us know immediately if your pamphlet has been accepted elsewhere. The fee is not refundable. No changes can be made once you have submitted the pamphlet. If no pamphlet submitted is to the required standard, submissions will rollover to a second call.

To enter:

Click here to go to our shop to select Poetry Pamphlet Prize and checkout as normal. This will also give us your details for cross-reference with your email submission. Send your submission to submissions@paperswans.co.uk with the subject as Pamphlet Prize.

This year's 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 Competition Judge; Jim Bennett.
Entry Fee: £3.50 1 poem, 3 Poems £8.00 5 poems £10
Contact: For more info see http://www.poetrykit.org/comp-spring.htm

1st Prize £5000 2nd Prize £2000 3rd Prize £1000 £500 four commendations plus publication in the magazine. Judge Kwame Dawes
Entry Fee: £7 subscribers £3 per poem
Contact: For more details see http://poetrylondon.co.uk/competition/

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/

For poems on any theme related to politics. First prize of €500 for each competition, with a second prize of One week’s accommodation in the Creativity Cabin, (http://www.thecreativitycabin.com) and a third prize of €100.Judged by Emily Wills
Entry Fee: £€12 per entry. One entry can be up to three poems.
Contact: For full details see http://hungryhillwriting.xyz/poetsmeetpolitics2018/

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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12th Segora Poetry Competition. Judge Mario Petrucci. 1st prize £300; £50 second prize, £30 third prize. Publication on Segora website and invitation to a presentation /workshop event in France.
Entry Fee: £5; £2.50 subsequent entries
Contact:

Full details of how to enter and details of 2018 Segora Short Story, Vignette and One-Act play competitions on http://www.poetryproseandplays.com/

Organiser Jocelyn Simms 1 rue de la Sevre, St Andre sur Sevre 79380 France. Supporters of Médecins Sans Frontières.

www.facebook.com/SegoraPPP/

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.

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.

Details:
The competition opens on 1st January 2018 and the closing date for entering poems is 31st March. The competition will be judged anonymously by Janice and Dónall Dempsey. Prizes: 1st Prize: £75 plus publication of a 30 page pamphlet and 10 copies. 2nd Prize £50 3rd Prize £25. All shortlisted and winning poems will be published in our 2018 Anthology, along with selected poems by invited poets. All the contributors will receive a copy of the book when it's published and launched on July 2nd 2018. Poems may be of any length and on any subject. They should not have been published before, online or in print.
Entry Fee: £4.00 1 poem, 3 poems: £7.00, each entry over 3 poems: £2.00 per poem
Contact: For full competition details see http://www.dempseyandwindle.co.uk/competition.html

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

Details:
The 2018 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award is accepting entries now. The sum of £20,000 will be awarded for the best unpublished collection of poems by a Scottish poet aged 30 or under. The runner-up will receive £2,500 and other shortlisted poets £1,000.Conditions for entry have changed a little for 2018. Whereas in previous years a collection could either be published or unpublished, it must now be unpublished; it can be submitted if it has been accepted for publication so long as the collection doesn’t appear in print before the announcement of the Prize, which will take place at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August. Poets should be no older than 30 years of age on the first day of January in the year of the Award, i.e. 1 January 2018 for the 2018 Award. Furthermore, those taking part must either have been born in Scotland, or continuously resident in Scotland for the last three years, or brought up in Scotland, or have a Scottish parent.There will be two judges on the panel, one of whom will always be Scottish.The judges for the 2018 award are Janice Galloway and John Glenday. Three copies (hard copy, not electronic) of an unpublished collection should be submitted.
Entry Fee: £0 Free
Contact:

Entries should be sent to:Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton’s Close, Canongate, EDINBURGH EH8 8DT

For rules and full details

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.

Details:
Andrew McMillan is the sole judge, and the prize money has been increased, with a £600 first prize on offer. A runner-up award of £150, a third prize of £75 and a new, fourth prize of £50. The Helen Cadbury Prize of £50 – formerly The York Prize – is renamed in honour of the York author, poet and friend of the festival who died last year. The prize is awarded to an excellent poem from an entrant with a York (YO) postcode. At the judge’s discretion, up to ten Highly Commended and 15 Commended poems will each win their writer a certificate.
Entry Fee: £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.
Contact: See the link to the details and the entry form.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The following prizes will be awarded:

First place: £400
Second place: £150
Third place: three prizes of £25

The prize-giving will take place as part of the WoLF festival over the weekend of 26-28 January, 2018

The fee to enter is £4. If multiple poems are entered in the same submission, £10 will be charged for three poems and then £3 for each subsequent poem.

Poems must be no more than 40 lines in length.

Deadline for submissions 31st December 2017

Results announced 20th January 2018
Prize-giving 26-28 January 2018

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.