End of August deadline for Ireland's €1,000 Westport poetry competition
There’s a first prize of €1,000 for the winner of this year’s Westport poetry competition, part of Westival music and arts festival in Ireland. The entry fee is €15 for up to three poems, and the deadline is August 30. Shortlisted entrants will be notified in late September and invited to attend the open reading at the festival to present their poems before the prizewinners are announced on 25 Oct...
11th July 2019
Claudia Rankine to judge €10,000 Moth poetry prize
The Forward prizewinning poet Claudia Rankine will be judging the €10,000 Moth poetry prize for a single unpublished poem. Four shortlisted poems will appear in the spring issue of The Moth magazine, and the overall winner will be announced at a special award ceremony at Poetry Ireland in Dublin on ...
1st July 2019
Helen Mort to judge £1,000 Winchester poetry prize
Helen Mort will be judging this year’s £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
29th June 2019
Mona Arshi, Helen Mort and Maurice Riordan to judge £5,000 National Poetry Competition
Mona Arshi, Helen Mort, and Maurice Riordan will be judging this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. It’s run by the Poetry Society, which spotlights up to 150 longlisted poets each year. The d...
21st June 2019
Jo Bell to judge £500 Stroud poetry prize
Jo Bell will be judging the £500 Stroud Book festival poetry prize. The deadline is 22 September. More details
2nd June 2019
All together now! Just hours left to enter Marsden the Poetry Village competition
It’s make your mind up time for those of you still pondering your entry for the Marsden the Poetry Village competition on the theme of ‘Together’ – the deadline for competition entries is coming up fa...
1st June 2019
Deadline nears for Marsden the Poetry Village competition on 'Together' theme
Patience Agbabi will be judging an international poetry competition run by Marsden the Poetry Village for poems submitted on the theme of “Together”, with a deadline of 1 June 2019. First prize is £30...
13th May 2019
Deadline nears for competition judged by Roger McGough
Roger McGough will be judging a compettion named after him and organised by Arts Richmond. The theme is Time, entrants must be 16 or over, and poems will be limited to no more than 200 words. The dead...
11th March 2019
Deadline nears for Brian Dempsey Memorial competition
The founder of Cheltenham poetry festival, Anna Saunders, will be judging the Brian Dempsey Memorial poetry competition, organised by publishers Dempsey & Windle. There is a pamphlet prize, for entrie...
3rd March 2019
Deadline looms for Poetry Business book and pamphlet competition
The deadline is 1 March to submit poems for the Poetry Business book and pamphlet competition. It’s the same date for submissions to the New Poets prize for poets aged 17-24. The main competition’s ju...
26th February 2019
Hollie McNish to judge Bridport poetry prize
Spoken word star Hollie McNish will be judging this year’s £5,000 Bridport poetry prize. She said: "I’m looking for poetry that interests, perhaps surprises, tickles or pulls me in upon first reading,...
16th February 2019
WoLF poetry competition winners announced!
The second WoLF poetry competition run by Write Out Loud on behalf of Wolverhampton literature festival - which will take place over the weekend of 1-3 February - has been won by Sarah Doyle, pictured...
25th January 2019
Hippocrates prize for poetry with medical theme is open for entries
The deadline is 14 February for the 2019 Hippocrates international Open and Health Professional awards for poetry and medicine, for an unpublished poem of up to 50 lines on a medical theme. The judges...
20th January 2019
Poems about home competition to aid Shelter
A poetry competition in aid of Shelter is to be judged by Michael Harrison and John Hegley. Entry is £4 per poem with all the proceeds going to Shelter. The deadline is 20 January 2019. More details
3rd January 2019
