Deadline nears on mentoring scheme to select, help and publish three poets
The deadline is 4 September in the search to select three poets who will be published together in Primers Volume 2, a book showcasing short debut collections of work. The mentoring scheme, involving Jane Commane, poetry editor of Nine Arches Press, poet Jacob Sam-La Rose, and the Poetry School, aims to nurture and support new talent that may otherwise not find an outlet. More details
1st September 2016
Deadline extended for Best New British and Irish Poets anthology
The 1 July submission deadline has been extended to 1 September for The Best New British and Irish Poets competition, to collect 50 poems from the 50 best new poets in the UK and Ireland. They will be published in Eyewear’s The Best New British and Irish Poets anthology in 2017. This year's antholog...
15th July 2016
Why the beautiful South has a place in my heart
I’ll confess it straight away – I have a soft spot for South, which was the first poetry magazine to accept a poem of mine. They hadn’t a clue that I hadn’t been published anywhere before – it was the...
19th May 2016
New Beat-inspired magazine Beatification seeks £500 crowdfunder aid
John G Hall, the founding editor of Citizen32 arts and literature magazine, is seeking £500 crowdfunder aid to help launch a new poetry and short story magazine based in Manchester, which will be aimi...
5th May 2016
Cheers! Pub poems wanted for book and beermats
Otley Word Feast Press in West Yorkshire is inviting poems about pubs from poets throughout the UK, “to celebrate pubs and their significance in our communities”. Successful poems will be published in...
26th April 2016
Magazine editor's warning on popular poetry subjects
What are the most popular subjects that poets write about? The editor of a long-running literary magazine has advised poets seeking publication: “If you choose to write about birds, photographs, pictu...
19th March 2016
Online journal launched as 'crazy adventure and for the love of poetry'
A new online poetry journal was launched this week. The High Window is a quarterly co-edited by David Cooke, who regularly posts his poems on Write Out Loud, and fellow poet Anthony Costello, co-host ...
10th March 2016
Wanted: poems about Yorkshire for new anthology by Valley Press
Scarborough-based Valley Press is calling for submissions for an anthology of poetry about Yorkshire, to be published in October this year, from writers based anywhere in the world. Poems can be on an...
5th February 2016
