National Poetry Competition opens for entries
Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long will be judging this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition, run by the Poetry Society, which is now open for entries. The deadline is 31 October. More details
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20th September 2021
Linda Gregerson and John McAuliffe to judge £2,000 Troubadour competition
Linda Gregerson and John McAuliffe will be judging the £2,000 Troubadour international poetry prize. The deadline is 27 September. More details
14th September 2021
Will Harris to judge £1,000 Oxford Brookes poetry competition
Will Harris will be judging the £1,000 Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre’s international poetry competition. The deadline is 20 September. More details
14th September 2021
Let's hear it for the mechanics - with a poetry competition
A conference is being held to celebrate 200 years of Mechanics’ Institutes worldwide – and a poetry competition is being organised as part of the celebrations.
On 16 October 1821, the world’s first...
6th August 2021
Poetry competition seeks poems against cruel sports but covers wide field
Award-winning poetry publishers Indigo Dreams have launched a Wild Poetry competition. They are looking for unpublished poems about “cruel sports in their various forms, including trophy and other hun...
31st July 2021
Jacqueline Saphra to judge Winchester poetry prize
Jacqueline Saphra will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
25th July 2021
Anthony Anaxagorou to judge Ledbury poetry competition
Anthony Anaxagorou will be judging the £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition. The deadline is 15 July. More details
3rd July 2021
Kim Moore to judge £500 York poetry prize
Kim Moore will be judging the £500 York poetry prize, run by YorkMix, in association with York literature festival. The deadline is 4 July. More details
25th June 2021
Owen Sheers to judge £1,000 Wells poetry competition
Owen Sheers will be judging the Wells Festival of Literature's £1,000 poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
14th June 2021
Raymond Antrobus to judge £5,000 Bridport poetry prize
Raymond Antrobus will be judging the £5,000 Bridport poetry prize. The deadline is 31 May. More details
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14th May 2021
Read your winning Heroes poem alongside Michael Rosen in Liverpool next month
Covid survivor Michael Rosen will be talking about his new book Many Different Kinds of Love at Liverpool’s Wowfest 21 next month. Meanwhile it’s the last few days of a competition associated with thi...
27th April 2021
Deadline nears for £600 Ware Poets competition
Kim Moore will be judging the £600 Ware Poets competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
24th April 2021
Malika Booker to judge £5,000 Poetry London prize
Malika Booker will be judging the £5,000 Poetry London magazine prize for a single poem. The deadline is 26 June. More details
7th April 2021
Poetry competition celebrates role of key workers during pandemic
A competition celebrating the lives and stories of the UK's key workers - teachers or nurses, cleaners or couriers, carers or shopworkers – who have kept our nation going during the pandemic is free t...
24th March 2021
Deadline nears for £1,000 Plough poetry prize
The 31 March deadline is nearing for the £1,000 Plough poetry prize, to be judged by Roger McGough. More details
24th March 2021
Emma Purshouse to judge £100 Red Shed competition
Emma Purshouse will be judging the £100 Red Shed poetry competition. The deadline is 31 March. More details
24th March 2021
André Mangeot to judge £600 Ver Poets competition
André Mangeot will be judging the £600 Ver Poets competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
21st March 2021
'Transformation' theme for Cheltenham poetry festival's single poem competition
The theme is ‘transformation’ and Fiona Sampson is the judge of the £300 Cheltenham poetry festival single poem competition, with the additional prize of a guest slot at a Cheltenham poetry festival o...
2nd March 2021
Deadline day for £1,000 RSPB and Rialto nature and place competition
Daljit Nagra will be judging the £1,000 RSPB and the Rialto Nature and Place poetry competition. Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide inte...
1st March 2021
Callum James to judge D&W short collection and single poem competitions
Poet and bookseller Callum James will be judging the Brian Dempsey Memorial competition organised by publishers Dempsey & Windle, which offers chances to win a short collection prize, or a £200 single...
28th February 2021
Seán Hewitt to judge £600 Poets and Players competition
Seán Hewitt will be judging the £600 Poets and Players competition. The deadline is 1 March. More details
1st February 2021
Wendy Klein to judge £200 Slipstream competition
Wendy Klein will be judging the £200 Slipstream Poets open poetry competition. The deadline is 28 February. More details
11th January 2021
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
3rd January 2021
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
3rd January 2021
