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Tom Sleigh and Mona Arshi to judge Troubadour prize

Tom Sleigh and Mona Arshi will be judging this year's £2,000 Troubadour poetry prize. The deadline is 10 December. More details 

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Martin Figura to judge £1,000 Cafe Writers competition

Martin Figura will be judging the £1,000 Café Writers competition. The deadline is 30 November. More details

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Malika Booker to judge Teignmouth poetry competition

Malika Booker, who won this year’s Forward prize for best single published poem for the second time, will be judging the £600 Teignmouth poetry festival competition. The closing date is 31 January 202...

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Uplands the theme for Cambrian Mountains Society poetry competition

The Cambrian Mountains Society is inviting entries in Welsh or English to its poetry competition based on the theme of Uplands. The deadline is 30 November. More details

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Deadline nears for National Poetry Competition

Will Harris, Clare Pollard and Jane Draycott will be judging the 2023 National Poetry Competition, organised by the Poetry Society. The deadline is 31 October. The first poem submitted costs £8. Subse...

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Manchester Cathedral opens door to poetry submissions

Manchester Cathedral’s poetry competition is open for submissions, with the theme this year ‘A Truth’. Organisers say they are looking for poems “which examine the notion of truth and subjectivity, th...

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Pat Edwards to judge Ironbridge Festival of the Imagination competition

Pat Edwards will be judging the £300 Ironbridge Festival of the Imagination poetry competition. The deadline is 17 September. The fee to enter is £4. If multiple poems are entered in the same submissi...

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Jessica Mookherjee to judge Gloucestershire poetry competiton

Jessica Mookherjee will be judging the Gloucestershire Poetry Society open poetry competition. First prize is £150, and entry is £4 per poem. The deadline is 31 August. More details

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Zaffar Kunial to judge £1,000 Winchester poetry prize

Zaffar Kunial will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details

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Steve Pottinger to judge £300 PPP competition

Steve Pottinger will be judging the inaugural Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists (PPP) poetry competition. First prize is £300, and the deadline is 30 June. All proceeds, once costs are covered, wil...

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Forward prizes founder to judge £1,000 Wells competition

The founder of the Forward prizes, William Sieghart, will be judging the £1,000 Wells Festival of Literature open poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details

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Poetry competition in honour of Hexham poet

A new £200 poetry competition for adults and children has been launched in Hexham, Northumberland, in honour of a local-born feminist poet, Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne. She was the sister of the first wor...

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Roger Robinson to judge £5,000 Bridport prize

Roger Robinson will be judging the 50th Bridport poetry competition prize. The deadline is 31 May 2023. More details  

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Chris Hardy to judge £300 Slipstream Poets competition

Chris Hardy will be judging the £300 Slipstream Poets open competition. Entries must be no longer than 60 Lines. The deadline is 15 March. More details

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Julia Webb to judge £600 Ver Poets competition

Julia Webb will be judging the £600 Ver Poets competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details

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Wendy Klein to judge £300 South Downs competition

Wendy Klein will be judging the £300 South Downs poetry festival competition. The deadline is 15 April. More details

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Mandy Pannett to judge Brian Dempsey poetry pamphlet competition

Publishers Dempsey & Windle’s Brian Dempsey Memorial poetry competition is now open for submissions from poets looking to publish their work as pamphlets. Submissions should consist of unpublished ori...

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Ian McMillan to judge £1,000 Rialto/RSPB nature and place competition

Ian McMillan will be judging the £1,000 Rialto and RSPB Nature and Place poetry competition. The deadline is 1 March. More details

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