Liz Berry to judge Wolverhampton literature festival competition on 'aspect of love'
Liz Berry will judge the £400 Wolverhampton Literature Festival poetry competition, which has the theme ‘aspect of love’. Poets are being asked to use the theme as a prompt to explore love in any of its different forms, whether that be love of a person or of a place, the joy of love, or the grief for love lost, or your passion for evenings spent doing yoga or knitting - any form of love is welcome...
28th November 2020
Rishi Dastidar to judge Kent & Sussex poetry competition
Rishi Dastidar will be judging the £1,000 Kent and Sussex Poetry Society open competition. The deadline for entries is 31 January 2021. More details
14th November 2020
Helen Ivory to judge £500 Teignmouth poetry festival competition
Helen Ivory will be judging the £500 Teignmouth poetry festival competition. The deadline is 31 January 2021. More details
14th November 2020
December deadline for Roger McGough prize on theme of 'identity'
The £150 Arts Richmond Roger McGough poetry prize is open for entries on the theme of ‘identity’. The deadline is 18 December. More details
7th November 2020
Resilience is the theme for Freedom From Torture poetry competition
The Freedom From Torture organisation that supports torture survivors is staging a poetry competition with the theme of Reslience in advance of its three-day literary festival next month. The deadline...
16th October 2020
Simon Armitage and Jade Cuttle to judge £5,000 Gingko eco-poetry prize
The £5,000 Gingko prize for eco-poetry, in association with the Poetry School, will be judged this year by the poet laureate Simon Armitage, and Jade Cuttle. This year there is also a separate £500 pr...
11th October 2020
Neil Astley, Jonathan Edwards, and Karen McCarthy Woolf to judge National Poetry Competition
Neil Astley, Jonathan Edwards, and Karen McCarthy Woolf will be judging this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. The deadline is 31 October. More details
29th September 2020
Deadline nears for Mark Doty and Mona Arshi to judge £2,000 Troubadour prize
Mark Doty and Mona Arshi will be judging the £2,000 Troubadour international poetry prize. The deadline is 28 September. More details
18th September 2020
You can do more than just clap for the NHS – support its staff by entering our Beyond the Storm poetry competition!
Write Out Loud has launched its most ambitious poetry competition yet, to raise funds for the NHS Charities Together COVID-19 Urgent Appeal. The Beyond The Storm Poetry Competition – for poems about...
13th May 2020
Jo Shapcott to judge £1,000 Wells poetry competition
Jo Shapcott will be judging the Wells Festival of Literature £1,000 open poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
23rd April 2020
Rachel Mann to judge £500 Manchester Cathedral poetry competition
Priest, poet and broadcaster Rachel Mann will be judging the £500 Manchester Cathedral poetry prize. The deadline is 30 June. More details
23rd April 2020
Liz Berry to judge £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition
Liz Berry will be judging the £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition. The deadline is 16 July. More details
23rd April 2020
Andrew McMillan to judge £1,000 Winchester prize
Andrew McMillan will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
14th April 2020
Deborah Harvey to judge Beach Hut coastal writing competition
Deborah Harvey is judging a ‘coastal writing for wellness’ writing competition run by The Beach Hut website. Poems or flash fiction should be inspired by the coast, nature and all it encompasses. The ...
30th March 2020
Sally Spedding to judge £500 Welsh Poetry Competition
Sally Spedding will be judging the £500 Welsh poetry competition. The deadline is 31 May. More details
30th March 2020
Glyn Maxwell to judge £600 Ware poetry competition
Glyn Maxwell will be judging the £600 Ware poetry competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
30th March 2020
Jacqueline Saphra to judge £600 Ver Poets competition
Jacqueline Saphra will be judging the £600 Ver Poets competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
16th March 2020
Stephanie Norgate to judge £250 Binsted prize
Stephanie Norgate will be judging the South Downs Poetry Festival Competition’s £250 Binsted prize. In addition the South Downs Young Poets Prize (£50) will be awarded to the best poem on any theme by...
28th February 2020
Paul McGrane to judge Brian Dempsey Memorial competition
Paul McGrane of the Poetry Society will be judging the Brian Dempsey Memorial competition, with prizes for a pamphlet, and for a single poem. It is organised by publishers Dempsey & Windle, and the de...
28th February 2020
Deadline nears to enter Geoff Stevens collection prize
The deadline is 29 February to enter the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, to have a poetry collection published by Indigo Dreams. There are two winners each year. You can enter up to three times, ...
16th February 2020
Call of the wild ... enter poetry festival's £200 competition
Ben Ray, pictured, and Cheltenham poetry festival founder Anna Saunders will be judging entries for the festival’s £200 Wild! Poem competition. Entries should be “as unruly and untamed as you like” to...
31st January 2020
Artlyst's £1,000 prize for a poem based on work of art
The art information website Artlyst, in association with the Poetry Society, have launched an international award for poetry based on works of art. The Artlyst Art to Poetry award celebrates ekphrasti...
27th January 2020
Deadline nears for £1,000 Kent & Sussex poetry competition
Carrie Etter will be judging the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society’s £1,000 poetry competition. The deadline is 31 January 2020. More details
22nd January 2020
