Deadline nears for £1,000 Winchester poetry prize
Sarah Howe will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
26th July 2017
Daljit Nagra to judge Poetry Book Fair's £500 competition
Daljit Nagra will be judging the Poetry Book Fair’s £500 poetry competition on the theme of hope, alongside book fair organisers Joey Connolly and Chrissy Williams. They’re looking for a short poem (14 lines maximum) to welcome visitors to this year’s Poetry Book Fair in London on Saturday 30 Septem...
26th July 2017
Carrie Etter to judge £500 Bradford on Avon poetry competition
Carrie Etter will be judging the £500 Bradford on Avon arts festival poetry competition. Organisers want poems of up to 20 lines on the theme of “flights of fancy”. The deadline is 30 July. More detai...
26th July 2017
Adam Horovitz to judge £600 Buzzwords competition
Adam Horovitz will be judging the £600 Buzzwords open poetry competition, organised by the regular poetry night in Cheltenham. The deadline is 26 August. More details
6th July 2017
Michael Loveday to judge £600 Tongues & Grooves prose poem prize
Michael Loveday will be judging the £600 prose poem prize organised by Portsmouth’s Tongues and Grooves. The deadline is 1 January 1018. More details
6th July 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition
Fiona Sampson will be judging the £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition. The deadline is 13 July. More details
4th July 2017
Gillian Clarke to judge £750 Wells festival poetry competition
Gillian Clarke will be judging the £750 Wells festival of literature poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
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27th June 2017
Deadline nears for £700 Battered Moons poetry competition
Malika Booker will be judging the £700 Battered Moons poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
25th June 2017
The National is open for entries - plus award for emerging poets in NW
The £5,000 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries in 2017, with judges Hannah Lowe, Andrew McMillan and Pascale Petit. The competition’s organisers, the Poetry Society, have also announce...
14th June 2017
Sinéad Morrissey to judge £2,000 Mslexia poetry competition
Sinéad Morrissey will be judging the £2,000 Mslexia women’s poetry competition, and Amy Wack, poetry editor of publishers Seren, will be judging Mslexia’s poetry pamphlet competition. The deadline for...
13th June 2017
Deadline nears for £500 Welsh poetry competition
Kathy Miles will be judging the £500 Welsh poetry competition. The deadline is 18 June. More details
1st June 2017
Deadline nears for £5,000 Bridport poetry competition
Lemn Sissay will be looking for poems that “electrify me, seduce me, grip me by the neck, carry me, whisper to me and sing to me” when he judges the £5,000 Bridport poetry prize. The deadline is 31 Ma...
24th May 2017
Penelope Shuttle to judge £700 Torbay poetry festival competition
Penelope Shuttle will be judging the £700 Torbay poetry festival competition. The deadline is 31 August. More details
19th May 2017
New poetry competition offers a prize every fortnight
A publisher has launched a poetry competition in which a winner is declared every fortnight. Eyewear’s Fortnight New Poem prize “is meant to celebrate poetry in a fast-paced digital world, where too o...
10th May 2017
Helen Mort to judge £1,000 Oxford Brookes poetry competition
Helen Mort will be judging Oxford Brookes University’s £1,000 poetry competition, which also has an English as an Additional Language category. The deadline is 28 August. More details
4th May 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Poetry London competition
Liz Berry will be judging Poetry London’s £1.000 poetry competition. The deadline is 2 May. More details
2nd May 2017
Deadline nears for £600 Ver Poets competition
Tamar Yoseloff will be judging the £600 Ver Poets competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
24th April 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Basil Bunting award
The deadline is 7 April for the £1,000 Basil Bunting poetry prize. The judge is Ahren Warner, editor of Poetry London magazine. More details
4th April 2017
Maura Dooley to judge £1,000 McLellan poetry prize
Maura Dooley will be judging the £1,000 McLellan poetry prize. The deadline is 21 June. More details
1st April 2017
Deadline nears for £600 Bristol poetry prize
Liz Berry will be judging the £600 Bristol poetry prize, organised by the Poetry Can. The deadline is 31 March. More details
22nd March 2017
Deadline nears for £250 Otley poetry prize
Matthew Hedley Stoppard, the town poet of Otley in West Yorkshire, will be judging the £250 Otley poetry prize. The deadline is 20 March. More details
15th March 2017
Imtiaz Dharker and Michael Symmons Roberts to judge Troubadour prize
Imtiaz Dharker and Michael Symmons Roberts will be judging the £2,000 Troubadour poetry prize. The deadline is 16 October. More details
27th February 2017
Publishers launch poetry pamphlet competition
Dempsey & Windle Publishing have launched their poetry pamphlet competition, with first prize £50 and a 30-page chapbook of the winner’s poems. All poems submitted also have the chance to be included ...
27th February 2017
Deadline nears for £500 York literature festival poetry competition
Antony Dunn will be judging York literature festival’s 2017 poetry competition. The first prize is £500, and the deadline is 28 February. More details
24th February 2017
Deadline nears for Poetry Business competition
Ian Duhig and Mimi Khalvati will be judging the Poetry Business book and pamphlet competition, and shortlisting the inaugural £1,000 Wordsworth Trust single poem prize. Poetry Business competition ent...
23rd February 2017
Jackie Wills to judge £400 South Downs poetry festival competition
Jackie Wills will be judging the £400 South Downs poetry festival competition. The deadline is 19 May. More details
17th February 2017
Making waves: Luke Wright to judge sound files in spoken poetry contest
Leading performance poet Luke Wright will be judging Making Waves, a new spoken poetry competition in which poets are invited to send in short spoken poems of 200 seconds as digital sound files. The f...
14th February 2017
Jane Commane to judge £450 Manchester Cathedral poetry competition
Publisher, editor and poet Jane Commane will be judging the £450 Manchester Cathedral poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
10th February 2017
Deadline nears for Poets & Players competition
Michael Symmons Roberts will be judging the Poets & Players £500 poetry competition. The deadline is 27 February. More details
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10th February 2017
Looking for poems about courage to put on display in Huddersfield
Huddersfield literature festival, which takes place 4-19 March, is looking for poems about courage, with selected poems appearing in prominent spaces and shops within the town centre. The competition ...
27th January 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Plough prize
Philip Gross will be judging the £1,000 Plough poetry competition. The deadline is 30 January 2017. More details
17th January 2017
Deadline nears for £500 Teignmouth poetry festival competition
Mario Petrucci will be judging the £500 Teignmouth poetry festival competition, with Rebecca Gethin adjudicating in the £100 local prize. The deadline is 31 January 2017. More details
16th January 2017
Niall Campbell to judge £500 Interpreter's House competition
Niall Campbell will be judging the £500 Interpreter’s House competition. The deadline is 31 January 2017. More details
7th January 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Magma prize
Jane Draycott will be the main judge for the £1,000 Magma poetry prize of 11-50 lines. The deadline is 16 January. A panel of five judges will judge a separate £1,000 prize for a poem of up to 10 line...
6th January 2017
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