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| 27th August 2018 |
1st £100 entry £3.50 |
POETRY KIT SUMMER COMPETITION 2018 This year's competition is for poetry on
any subject. There are no style or length restrictions
but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be
selected as a longer one. Enter by midnight on 27th
August 2018 1st prize is £100. 2nd prize is £50 Entry fees are as follows; 1 poem
£3.50 3 Poems £8.00 5 poems £10 Competition Judge;
JIM BENNETT FOR MORE
INFORMATION OR TO ENTER ONLINE SEE
http://www.poetrykit.org/PKcomp.htm
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| 7th August 2018 |
1st £250 entry £4 |
The Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition has been successfully organised since July 2009. The judge this quarter is multi-award-winning poet, editor and poetry writing teacher Roger Elkin. He will read all the entries and judge the poems anonymously. This competition offers publishing opportunities for the winning, commended and specially-mentioned poems in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine (online & in print) plus cash prizes. Details: This competition is for original, previously unpublished poems in English language, on any subject, in any style up to 50 lines long. Poems posted on members-only non-public groups for review/critique as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Poets of all ages, gender or nationality living in any part of the world are eligible to enter. Prizes: £250 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd), £30 x 3 (High Commendation), £15 x 3 (Commendation), 3 x Special Mentions (publication only) Fees £4/1, £7/2, £9/3, £11/4, £12/5, £16/7, £22/10) Results: Due on 21st September 2018 Publication: Prize-winning, commended and specially mentioned poems will receive first publication in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine (online and print) October - December 2018 issue. for further details see http://sentinelquarterly.com/competitions/poetry/index.htm |
| 15th August 2018 |
1st £1000 entry £5 |
The Robert Graves Prize is a collaboration
between the Roehampton Poetry Centre and Wimbledon Bookfest. It is
named for one of the major figures of twentieth century poetry and
encourages entries from all around the world. The Prize will be
given for the best single poem submitted; multiple entries are
encouraged but will be judged separately. - Entries must be original, written in English and
unpublished at the time of submission. - Poems must be no longer than 40 lines and should be
single-spaced. - The prize will be judged by Literary Agent Peter Straus
and renowned poet David Harsent. -Shortlist will be judged by a panel including Susanna
Howard - The winning poem will receive £1000, and two runners up
will receive £100 each. All three winning entries being published in
POEM Magazine. - The closing date for entries is the 15th
August 2018. The Roehampton Poetry Centre is based in the Department of
English and Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton,
London. The Department is a centre of literary excellence and
according to the Guardian University Guide 2018 is ranked in the top
5 universities in London for English and Creative Writing.
https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/research-centres/the-roehampton-poetry-centre/robert-graves-prize/ |
| 25th August 2018 |
1st £600 entry £4 |
Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition
2018 Sole Judge: Graham Burchell (will read
all entries). Closing date AUGUST 25th
2018 Poems up to length: 70 lines. Prizes: £600, £300, £50 x 5 commended. The Gloucestershire Prize- £200
(residents only). Fee: £4; £10/3 (postal entries); £4.35; £8.70/2; £11/3 (Paypal). Online entry at
https://tinyurl.com/competition18 or SEND SAE to Buzzwords Open Poetry
Competition, 49 Pegasus Court, St. Stephen's Road, Cheltenham, GL51
3GB, UK |
| 27th August 2018 |
1st £100 entry £3.50 |
POETRY KIT SUMMER COMPETITION 2018 This year's competition is for poetry on
any subject. There are no style or length restrictions
but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be
selected as a longer one. Enter by midnight on 27th
August 2018 1st prize is £100. 2nd prize is £50 Entry fees are as follows; 1 poem
£3.50 3 Poems £8.00 5 poems £10 Competition Judge;
JIM BENNETT FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO ENTER
ONLINE SEE
http://www.poetrykit.org/PKcomp.htm |
| 31st August 2018 |
1st £200 entry £3 |
Nightmare: Gothic Dreams
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, poems and stories are invited in the Gothic tradition. What does Gothic mean to you? Dark? Spooky? Vampires and ruined monasteries or perhaps something more subtle and uncanny? Maybe Southern Gothic, as in Faulkner or Anne Rice’s work for example, or Canadian Gothic is your thing. It’s up to you and your Gothic imagination. Get writing – and chill us to the bone!
Prizes:
First: The Canterbury Christ Church University Poetry Prize of £200 Second: £100 Third: £50 Judge: Sonia Overall For more information http://saveaswriters.co.uk/competitions.html |
| 31st August 2018 |
1st £1000 entry£5 |
Torbay Open Poetry Competition First Prize: £1,000 plus free weekend at the poetry festival including accommodation and Festival Pass Second Prize: £300 plus a free Festival Pass Third Prize: £150 plus ticket for the Festival supper for two Poems must be original, unpublished and not accepted for publication. They should be written in English and not exceed 50 lines. Online entries are £5 each because of additional admin costs in time and printing. Judge: Daniella Hope Further information https://www. torbaypoetryfestival.co.uk |
| 7th September 2018 |
1st 3£300 entry £3 |
Waltham Forest Poetry Competition A Poets Corner Competition. The theme is A Bright Future and there are 3 prize categories: Adult, Young Poet, and a Local prize for anyone living, working or studying in Waltham Forest. This year's judge is Meryl Pugh. Adult prize: 1st £300 | 2nd £200 | 3rd £100 Young Poets prize: 1st £50 | 2nd £30 | 3rd £20 Local prize: 1st £50 | 2nd £30 | 3rd £20 The top three poems in each category, plus a number of Commended poets, will be published in a prize winners’ anthology and on the Poets Corner website. The overall winner of the Adult and Young Poets’ competitions will be offered Poetry Society Membership. Submit up to 4 poems, 40 lines maximum per poem, not including the title. Poems are judged anonymously, so please don’t put your name or any identifying information on your poems. For more information https://pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/ |
| 14th September 2018 |
1st £2000 entry £10 |
Women's Poetry Competition 2 018The Women's Poetry Prize, presented by Mslexia and the Poetry Book Society, is open to all those who identify as female, submitting up to three unpublished poems on any subject. 1st Prize: £2,000 (plus optional mentoring and writing retreat) 2nd Prize: £400 3rd Prize: £200 17 finalists win £25 each. All winning poems will be published in Mslexia and selected winners featured in the PBS Bulletin and on the PBS website. Special Prize: £500 for the best poem by an unpublished woman poet. For more information https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/poetrycompetition?utm_source=MSLEXIAPRIZEFLIER&utm_medium=FLIER&utm_campaign=MSLEXIAPRIZEFLIER |
| 14th September 2018 |
1st £10000 entry £17.50 |
Manchester Poetry Prize£10,000 prize for the best portfolio of three to five poems (maximum combined length: 120 lines). Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over (no upper age limit). Judging panel: Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Carol Ann Duffy and Adam O'Riordan (chair). For more information https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/poetry-prize/ |
| 25th September 2018 |
1st Publication entry £22 |
The Magma Open Pamphlet Competition
Magma is celebrating its 25th anniversary next
year and in the run-up to this milestone they
are inviting entries to their first ever
pamphlet competition, with the chance of getting
published and a celebratory launch reading in
2019.
1st prize: publication of the winning pamphlet and launch reading The winner and 3 others will have a poem published in Magma. All shortlisted poets will have a poem published on our website. Poets on the shortlist of 10 will each get a paragraph of feedback. Judged by Magma editors. |
| 30th September 2018 |
1st prize from Pendle entry free |
The Pendle War Poetry Competition is open for entries. First and second prize will be awarded in each of the following categories: UK & Ireland Under 18, Overseas Under 18, Pendle Adult, UK & Ireland Adult, Overseas Adult. The winning entrants will each be awarded a certificate as well as a free copy of the annual competition anthology. The poem should have War as its theme and can relate to any era: Ancient Rome, Crusades, Civil War, Napoleonic, Boer War, First World War, Second World War, Korea, Vietnam, Falklands, Middle East – or any other conflict. It does not have to be about fighting and killing and can also reflect political or social aspects of the theme. http://pendlewarpoetrycompetition.blogspot.com/p/pendle-war-poetry-competition-closing.html |
| 30th September 2018 |
1st $100 entry $10 |
Wax Poetry and Art
presents
Contest closes
September 30, 2018. Cost to enter is $10 CAD per poem.
The winner receives
$100 plus royalties (if accrued). |
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30th September 2018 |
1st $1,500 entry $12 |
Tom Howard/Margaret
Reid Poetry Contest Judges: See website Tom Howard Prize of $1,500 for a poem in
any style or genre Margaret Reid Prize of $1,500 for a poem
that rhymes or has a traditional style Ten honorable mention prizes of $100 (any
style) Entry fee: $12 per poem (up to 250 lines
each) 16th annual contest sponsored by Winning
Writers, one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's
Digest). Submit poems in any style, up to 250 lines each. Both
published and unpublished work accepted. All entries that win cash
prizes will be published online. See guidelines, past winners, and
enter online via Submittable at https://winningwriters.com/tompoetry |
| 22nd October 2018 |
1st £2000 entry £6 |
troubadour international poetry prize 2018 judged by jo shapcott & daljit nagra
first prize £2,000
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| 31st October 2018 |
1st £500 entry £5 |
Cannon Poets Sonnet or Not Poetry Prize 2018Cannon Poets are pleased to announce this year’s popular Sonnet or Not Prize. You are invited to write a poem or poems of just fourteen lines in length. You may choose any one of the traditional sonnet forms, or experiment with alternative 14 line forms perhaps using half rhyme, metarhyme or blank verse. This year’s judge is Jo Bell, an award-winning poet working across the UK with poetry talents from Ian McMillan to Brian Patten and Gwyneth Lewis. Jo is the former director of National Poetry Day, sometime programmer for Ledbury Poetry Festival and others, and occasional broadcaster. Jo is the Canal Laureate of the UK and devised the immensely successful online poetry group 52.
Prizes:
First Prize: £500 Second Prize: £250 Third Prize: £125 Established in 1983, Cannon Poets meet monthly in Moseley, Birmingham. They also arrange workshops, readings and displays of members’ work and produce a quarterly magazine, The Cannon’s Mouth. http://www.cannonpoets.org.uk/competitions.php?panel=sonentry.php |
| 31st October 2018 |
1st £1000 entry £5 |
The Plough Prize
Open Competition for a poem up to 40 lines plus
the Ronald Duncan Short Poem Competition -
maximum length 10 lines. For previously
unpublished poems on any subject.
The prizes in each category:
1st prize: £1,000 2nd prize: £500 3rd prize: £250 Both competitions will be judged by Pascale Petit. For more information https://www.theploughprize.co.uk/ |
| 31st October 2018 |
1st £5000 entry £7 |
National Poetry CompetitionOne of the biggest single poem competitions in the world, the National Poetry Competition is open to anyone aged 17 or older. The competition is for previously unpublished poems of up to 40 lines in length. 1st Prize: £5000 2nd Prize: £2000 3rd Prize: £1000 Seven commendations: £200 Judged by Kei Miller, Kim Moore and Mark Waldron. For your Information https://npc.poetrysociety.org.uk/ |
| 30th November 2018 |
1st Publication entry £20 |
Littoral Press Nature Poetry CompetitionThe littoral press will be holding a yearly competition for a full collection of nature, spiritual and environmental poetry. 60 copies of the winning collection will be published by the Littoral Press.10 copies will be retained by the littoral press for ‘legal deposit’ and the press’s archives.50 copies will be delivered free of charge to the winning poet (UK mainland only). Realising how difficult it may be to submit a full poetry collection made up entirely of Nature, spiritual or environmental poems, as long as the majority of the poems (i.e. more than half) are either directly or indirectly concerned with nature, spirituality or the environment, the collection will be deemed an acceptable submission. The adjudicator will not give any preference as far as the number of nature poems in relation to the number of poems on other subjects. Although, as stated earlier, the objective of the competition was to publish more nature poetry, the whole collection will be judged on the merits of all the poems in the collection and not just the nature/spiritual/environmental work See - http://www.southendpoetry.co.uk/littoral/CompetitionRules.html |
| 30th November 2018 |
1st £100 Entry fee £5 for two poem |
Against the Grain Poetry Press - Poem Competition 2018 First prize – £100, Second prize – £50, Third prize – £25. Judges – Abegail Morley, Jessica Mookherjee and Karen Dennison (ATG editors). We are looking for a competition winner‘s poem we like enough to submit to the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. First, second and third prize winners will be invited to read at an ATG event. Winning poems will be published on our website. To enter and for more details see https://againstthegrainpoetrypress.wordpress.com/competition/ |
| 30th November 2018 |
1st Publishing entry £12 |
Cinnamon Press Debut Poetry Collection Prize Prize1 year's free mentoring/(for those who have completed mentoring) 100 copies of the collection + publishing contract. Open to those who have not had a full collection published. Judged by Judy Kendall. The fee is £12. Deadline: 30 November, 2018. Link: https://www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/competitions/debut-poetry-collection-prize |
| 31st December 2018 |
1st £200 entry free |
Brexit in Poetry
Holland Park Press invites any poem that deals with any aspects of the Brexit process. The competition will not be judged on whether you are for or against leaving the EU but about how you’ve put the poem together: use of language, rhythm, sound, imagery, etc. The author of the winning poem will receive £200. The winning poem and runners-up will be published in the online magazine. Publisher Bernadette Jansen op de Haar and her brother, poet and author Arnold Jansen op de Haar, will judge this competition and read all the poems. The actual word Brexit does not have to appear, but the poem needs to be inspired by Brexit, for example by throwing a new light on being in or out of the EU, or by expressing something that hasn’t been voiced before, but make sure to stay away from clichés. |
| 2nd December 2018 |
1st $50 CAN entry 1 poem free |
Wax Poetry
and Art
invites all poets to submit to The Calgary Poetry
One poem may be
submitted for free. Contest closes December 2, 2018. Read guidelines at: http://waxpoetryart.com/calgary/contests/calgary.html |
| 2nd December 2018 |
1st $50 CAN entry 1 poem free |
Wax Poetry
and Art
invites all poets to submit to The Calgary Poetry
One poem may be
submitted for free. Contest closes December 2, 2018. Read guidelines at: http://waxpoetryart.com/calgary/contests/calgary.html |
| Ongoing Competitions | ||
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