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| 17th June 2020 |
1st £100 entry £3.50 |
POETRY
KIT SPRING COMPETITION 2020 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 17th June 2020 1st prize is
£100. 2nd £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 |
| 30th May 2020 |
1st £100 entry £4 |
Lucent Dreaming 2020 Poetry ContestInternational poetry competition open to writers 18+. Accepting poems up to 56 lines. 1st prize: £100, Poetry Bundle,
Publication and free editing See https://lucentdreaming.com/lucent-dreaming-2020-short-story-and-poetry-contests/ |
| 31st May 2020 |
1st £500 entry £6 |
International Welsh Poetry CompetitionThe International Welsh Poetry Competition has been running since 2007 and is the biggest in Wales. The aim is to inspire people to capture life in the present day and to give a voice to a new generation of poets and writers. The competition is not interested in purely academic types of literature but would much rather see pure raw passion burst onto the creative writing scene. 1st Prize - £500 Plus publication in future anthology Judge - Sally Spedding |
| 31st May 2020 |
1st Publication entry £15 |
INDIGO-FIRST PAMPHLET COMPETITION 2020 Open to poets who have not had a full
collection or pamphlet published. • TWO winners will have their debut collection
published and receive 20 free copies • Submission: Complete pamphlet to 30 poetry
pages as one document • Entry Fee: £15 per block of poems • Closing Date: 31st MAY 2020 • Online entries only FULL SUBMISSION DETAILS
www.indigodreams.co.uk/indigo-first-pamphlet-2020/4594919393 |
| 31st May 2020 |
2 of £25
entry free |
FREE competition for anyone living in
Buckinghamshire (Milton Keynes' home county) or in the neighbouring
counties of Northamptonshire or Bedfordshire. Poems up to 14 lines
on the theme ‘City of Dreams’. Work must be previously unpublished.
Prize of £25 for the best poem in each of two age categories: a) 14
– 19 and b) 20+. In addition, at least 20 stories and 20 poems will
be selected for publication in an anthology. For further details, rules & entry form visit https://www.mklitfest.org/mink2020 |
| 31st May 2020 |
1st from prize fund entry £5 donation |
Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary Poetry Competition 2020Calling for poetry about nature, wildlife, the environment, rescue animals and related topics. 50% of the total entry fees goes to the work of the sanctuary and 50% constitutes the prize-fund. This year's judge is the widely published and award-winning poet, Jane Lovell. Entry is by donation to the charity. |
| 31st May 2020 |
1st 250guineas Entry £4 |
The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2020The Frogmore Poetry Prize has been awarded annually since 1987. Previous winners include Sharon Black, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci and Lesley Saunders. The 2020 Prize will be adjudicated by poet and translator Maria Jastrzebska. |
| 8th June 2020 |
1st £500 entry £9 |
Aurora Prize for Writing 2020The Aurora Prize for Writing is a national competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors. The prize was first awarded in 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction (of up to 2,000 words) and poetry (of up to 60 lines). With its heart firmly in the East Midlands, there are also prizes for the best writing from the region, in both categories. The winners, in each category, will receive a cash prize of £500, feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a leading literary agent (or Editor as appropriate) and a year’s free membership to the Society of Authors, which includes access to advice and resources on all aspects of the business of writing. Winners will also receive a session with Society of Authors staff including an introduction to how the Society can support them in their careers as professional authors and covering essential advice on copyright, payment terms and contracts. Second Prize: £150 cash. Third Prize: A one-day course of your choice from Writing School East Midlands. In order to champion writers from the East Midlands, there will also be a regional prize of £100 awarded to the best work in each category from the region. This is an national prize open to everyone. See www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/aurora-prize-for-writing-2020/ |
| 15th June 2020 |
1st £300 entry £5 |
Segora International Writing
Competitions 2020 Poetry, Short Story, Vignette, One-Act
Play Deadline 15th June all
competitions Guidelines, rules and multiple entries
www.poetryproseandplays.com Poetry prizes: £300, £100, £50 Single
entry £5 Judge: Martyn Crucifix Short Story prizes: £300, £100, £50
Single entry £8 Judge: Sherry Morris Single entry £8 Vignette prize: £100 Single entry £5 One-Act Play Prizes: £150, £50 Single
entry fee £12 Judge: Charles Palliser |
| 15th June 2020 |
1st £200
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Canterbury
Festival Poet of the Year 2020 Adjudicators:
Luigi Marchini, Mara Adamtiz Scrupe, Gary Studley The Awards Evening
will take place on Thursday 1 October 2020. The Winner will be named
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year and receive £200. £100
will be awarded for the second and £50 for the third places, and £25
will be awarded to the People’s Choice voted for on the night. Best-Read Poem, as read by the poet, will
receive a bottle of Sparkling Wine. Shortlisted poets will be invited to read
on the night and all longlisted poems wll appear in an anthology |
| 17th June 2020 |
1st £100 entry £3.50 |
POETRY
KIT SPRING COMPETITION 2020 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 17th June 2020 1st prize is
£100. 2nd £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 |
| 26th June 2020 |
1st
£250
Entry £4 |
Wirral Poetry Festival Open
Poetry Competition 2020 Adjudicator: Anna Saunders (Open
Poetry) and Dave Costello (Wirral Prizes) 1st Prize £250, 2nd
Prize £100, 2 runner-up prizes £25 each |
| 30th June 2020 |
1st £500
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Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2020 Our judge this year will be Rachel
Mann. Rachel Mann is a priest, poet and broadcaster. A
parish priest in south Manchester, she is formerly Poet in Residence
at Manchester Cathedral and currently Visiting Teaching Fellow in
the Manchester Writing School. Author of eight books, her debut full
poetry collection, A Kingdom of Love (Carcanet 2019) has been called
‘a hard-won book of wonders’ by Michael Symmons Roberts. First Prize (£500 – Manchester Cathedral
Poet of the Year, 2020) Second Prize (£250) Third Prize (£150) |
| 30th June 2020 |
1st £1000 entry £6 |
WELLS FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE’S
COMPETITIONS
www.wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk email:
competitions@wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk Open Poetry: Entry fee, £6 Any subject, no more than 35 lines Short Story: Entry fee, £6 Prizes:
1st £750, 2nd £300, 3rd £200, Local
£100 Any subject, 1,000 to 2,000 words A Book for Children: Entry fee, £6
Any subject. First three chapters or first
thirty pages whichever is the shortest, plus the synopsis Stories aimed at readers aged 7+ allowing
entrants to write either middle grade or teenage novels Judge, Fleur Hitchcock Young Poets: Entry fee, £3 The Poetry Society Any subject, no more than 35 lines |
| 30th June 2020 |
1st: 50% of value of entry fees + publication
Entry fee £5 |
2020 Cerasus Poetry Olympics Adjudicator: John Wilks. The 2020 Cerasus Poetry Olympics is a competition that will run over 6 qualifying heats in July-August 2020. At the end of the competition, there will be 3 Medal Winners: The Gold Medal winner will be awarded 50% of the value of the entry fees received. They will also work with Cerasus to have a collection of their poetry published and will receive 10 complimentary copies of the ensuing book. The Silver Medal winner will be awarded 25% of the value of the entry fees received. They will also work with Cerasus to have a collection of their poetry published and will receive 5 complimentary copies of the ensuing book. The Bronze Medal winner will work with Cerasus to have a collection of their poetry published and will receive 3 complimentary copies of the ensuing book. All published books will be made available to buy on Amazon and their authors will be able to purchase further copies at a discounted price. Please refer to the full rules and pay the entry fee here: http://cerasuspoetry.com/2020-cerasus-poetry-olympics/ |
| 1st July 2020 |
1st £300 entry £5 |
Penfro Festival Competition 2020Can you write poetry that digs deep into the eco-system and asks challenging questions, as well as being beautiful and full of subtle music? Can your poetry sow the seeds of ideas? Then this new competition is for you. A competition with a 'green' theme (interpret as broadly as you like). The competition will tie in with the 'Loving the Earth' Green Fair weekend later this summer at Rhosygilwen in Wales, where winners will be announced. There is a top prize of £300 to be won. The judge is poet Adam Horovitz, whose second full collection of poems, The Soil Never Sleeps, was published by Palewell Press in 2018. It was written over several seasons on six pasture farms in England and Wales, all of which eschew conventional, chemical-driven farming practice in favour of ecologically minded, biodiversity-friendly farming. |
| 1st July 2020 |
1st mentoring entry £1 |
Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize 2020This year's judges Astra Papachristodoulou, Nik Perring, Sascha Akhtar and Jarred McGinnis are looking for experimental short fiction and poetry written by UK residents who are 18-30 years old.
All placed writers receive books and are published in an anthology. |
| 3rd July 2020 |
1st £100 entry £4 |
SANDWICH POET OF THE YEAR;
SANDWICH LOCAL POET OF THE YEAR; SANDWICH 18 or under POET OF THE
YEAR open until Friday 3rd July
for rules and entry form go to
www.sandwichevents.org.uk Prizes: – SANDWICH POET OF THE YEAR – 1st
£100, 2 Runners-Up receive £35 each SANDWICH LOCAL POET OF THE YEAR – 1st
£75, 2 Runners-Up £20 each Under 18 Poet of the Year – winner £25, 2
Runners Up £15 Entries cost £4 for 1 poem, £10 for 3
poems and £15 for 5 poems |
| 16th July 2020 |
1st £1000 entry £5.75 |
Ledbury Poetry Festival International Poetry CompetitionLedbury Poetry Festival 2020 Poetry Competition carries a great first prize of £1,000 cash and a residential course at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre. Competition winners (from all categories) also have the opportunity to read their poems at the internationally renowned Ledbury Poetry Festival 2021. The competition is open to all entries of original, previously unpublished work across categories for Adults, Young People (12-17 years) and also Children (11 and under). See https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry-competition/ |
| 17th July 2020 |
1st £1000 entry £5 |
Robert Graves Poetry Prize, a collaboration between the University of Roehampton and Wimbledon BookFest. I The prize is judged by leading Literary
Agent, Peter Straus and Professor Paul O’Prey, former assistant to
Robert Graves. The winning entrant will be awarded £1,000 and two
runners up will each be awarded £100. The prize is unrestricted by location,
genre, or subject, and is open to everyone. Entries must be original
poems written in English, no longer than 40 lines. Entry fee of £5
per poem. Deadline 17 July, Submissions are via:
www.wimbledonbookfest.org. |
| 28th July 2020 |
1st
€500 entry €10.50 |
Poets Meet Politics International Open
Poetry Competition |
| 31st July 20210 |
1st £1000 entry £5 |
Winchester Poetry Prize 2020 The Winchester Poetry Prize is organised by the
Winchester Poetry Festival and is open to poets from around the
world. This year’s entries will be judged by
Andrew McMillan, a senior lecturer in the
Manchester Writing School and whose first collection, physical,
was the only poetry collection to ever win The Guardian First Book
Award. The winner will be announced at the Winchester
Poetry Festival, which takes place from 8 to 12 October.
First prize is £1,000, second prize is £500,
and third prize is £250. There will also be a prize
for the best poem written by a Hampshire-based poet. Closing date is 31 July 2020. More details can
be found at
https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize |
| 2nd August 2020 |
1st $500 entry - qualifying wins in competitions |
Wax Poetry and Art Poetry Champions Cup 2020. Contest closes August 2, 2020. Read the
submission guidelines here:
http://waxpoetryart.com/contests/championscup.html The winning poet wins the Grand Prize of
$500 CAD plus a writing journal, pen, commemorative gift, and
additional royalties (if accrued). Submissions are open to everyone,
everywhere. To enter this contest, you need a Poetry Champions Cup
2020 Ticket. Tic kets can be |
| 6th August 2020 |
1st £300 entry £6 |
Second Light Competition for Long and Short Poems by WomenA competition for women poets, for poems on any subject.
Winning and Commended poems published (in full or extract) in ARTEMISpoetry. Winners invited to a London reading. Judge: Myra Schneider |
| 22nd August 2020 |
1st £600 entry £4 |
Buzzwords Open Poetry CompetitionSole Judge: Penelope Shuttle who will read all entries
Proceeds of the competition will be used to fund ‘Buzzwords’, which is the longest running regular poetry gathering in Cheltenham. See https://buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_14.html |
| 31st August 2020 |
1st
€1000 entry €25 |
Fool for Poetry International Chapbook
Competition Closing Date: 31st August 2020 Entry fee: 25 Euro |
| 31st August 2020 |
1st £1000 entry £12 |
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international
literary prize that is a hotbed for new talent in Poetry and Short
Fiction. Now in its 14th year, the Prize
supports both emerging and established writers. By entering, writers
can showcase their work to key industry figures and organisations. Submissions close 31 August 2020 Winners are selected for both categories and awarded with
£1,000. Publication within the Aesthetica
Creative Writing Anthology, is also awarded to
a further 60 writers whose works are highly commended. Prizes:
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£1,000 prize money for the Poetry & Short Fiction Winners §
Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2021 §
Full membership to The Poetry Society (Poetry Winner) §
Consultation with Redhammer
Management (Fiction Winner) §
Selection of books from Vintage and Bloodaxe
Books §
One year print subscription to Granta Aesthetica is proud to champion new writing talent and
supports its writing alumni beyond the Prize, offering print and
digital publicity and continued exposure across our channels. Poetry entries £12 | Short Fiction entries £18 |
| 15th September 2020 | 1st €1,000 |
The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2020 First Prize: €1,000 plus a week at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland The Moth Nature Writing Prize will be awarded to an unpublished piece of writing – prose fiction, non-fiction or poetry – which best combines exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer’s relationship with the natural world. The Prize is open to anyone (over 16) as long as their entry is previously unpublished. The word limit is 4,000 and there is an entry fee of €15. The judge is Richard Mabey, ‘someone who not just sees beauty in nature but understands and enhances it.’ See www.themothmagazine.com for details. |
| 28th September 2020 |
1st £2000 entry £5 |
Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2020Judged by Mona Arshi and Mark Doty.
First prize: £2,000 |
| 31st October 20120 |
1st 40% of entry fees entry $2 |
The 13th
Annual 2020 (co-sponsored by LONE
STARS MAGAZINE and CONCEIT MAGAZINE) Submissions closing: October
31, 2020 Judging by the Editors of
LONE STARS and Conceit Magazines Unpublished, simultaneous and
previously published entries accepted. Entries are to be 32 lines or
less, single spaced, camera ready – (the way you want to see it in
print.) Contest Name & Author's Name
and Address on each page Include SASE or postcard for
acknowledgement. One-time magazine publication
rights for each publisher. Author’s own copyrights guaranteed. 40% of fees collected - First
Prize 20% of fees collected -
Second Prize 20% of fees collected - Third
Prize PLUS: 1 YEAR Subscription to
LONE STARS MAGAZINE 6 MONTH Subscription to
CONCEIT MAGAZINE Send Entries to (USMail
preferred): Email:
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LONE STARS
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| 31st October 2020 |
1st £500 entry £6 |
The Bedford Competition: 1st
£500 entry £6 or 3 for £12. |
| 31st October 2020 |
1st £5000 entry £7 |
The National Poetry Competition is one of the
world's biggest prizes for a single poem, and remember that all entries
are judged via an anonymised judging process - put your best poem
forward!Judges
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| 31st October 2020 |
1st £500 entry £5 |
Cannon Poets
Sonnet or Not
2020 Poetry
Competition
Cannon Poets popular
Sonnet or Not 2020 Poetry Competition is now open. Poems must be
14 lines, no more, no less.
Prizes First Prize: £500 Second Prize: £250 Third Prize: £150 Commended Prize: £10 Closing Date: Midnight, 31st October 2020 Submit at least one poem with the correct fee to become eligible for one year subscription to The Cannon’s Mouth [in which winning entries and the judge's report will be published] discounted from the usual £13.00 to £11.00 [UK] or from £22 to £20 [outside UK]. An entry will consist of one 14 line poem typed on a sheet of A4 paper [please use at least 12 point typeface]. Please ensure that each entry has its own title. There is no limit to the number of entries providing the fees are paid. Use several entry forms if necessary. The entry fee is £5.00 for the first poem and £2.50 for each additional poem submitted. Alternatively, you can now enter on line. See details https://www.cannonpoets.org.uk/competitions.php?panel=sonnetornot.html |