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, that resist certainties. Our theme is deliberately broad to inspire poems on a variety of topics, while engaging with the notion of what truth means to you. Your poetry could use vivid imagery and use p...
9th September 2023
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 submission, £10 will be charged for three poems and then £3 for each subsequent poem in that submission. Max...
31st July 2023
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
31st July 2023
National Poetry Competition is open for entries
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...
20th July 2023
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
20th July 2023
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...
24th May 2023
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
24th May 2023
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...
13th April 2023
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
5th April 2023
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
8th March 2023
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
6th March 2023
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
6th March 2023
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...
10th February 2023
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
28th January 2023
