The 15th Annual Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest (USA) officially begins in April, as part of the celebration of National Poetry Month. There are five new categories: “Who Is The Most Important Person In My Life?”   "What Treasure Would I Like To Discover?”   "What Don’t I Know About You That I Should?”   "What Would I Do If I Ruled The World?”   "Should We Be Thinking About Today Or Tomorrow?”   Poets may submit a maximum of three poems, no more than one in each of three of the five contest categories.

Everyone is encouraged to enter the contest.  Poets do not have to live in Lincoln, CA to be eligible. Young Poets, 18-years of age or under, are encouraged to submit poems and will compete in a special “Young Poets” category. 

Entry Forms and Contest Rules can be downloaded from the following website: www.libraryatlincoln.org 

under “NEWS.”

If you have questions, please contact Alan Lowe, Contest Coordinator, at slolowe@icloud.com for assistance.

Winners will read their poems on Sunday, October 13, 2019, at the Voices of Lincoln Special Event to be held from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Willow Room at the Lincoln Public Library at Twelve Bridges, 485 Twelve Bridges Drive, Lincoln, CA. Those who cannot attend will have their poems read for them by a member of the Poets Club of Lincoln. 

The Writers Bureau's 2019 Poetry Competition  with £1,722 worth of prizes is now open and accepting entries!

Closing date 31st July 2019

Prizes:

1st Prize - £300
2nd Prize - £200
3rd Prize - £100

Plus, every winner receives a Writers Bureau Course of their choice worth of £374 each.

Visit the competition website at www.wbcompetition.com where past competition winning entries can be read and entry forms downloaded. Entries can also be made online.
The closing date is 31st July 2019. 

The 2019 Betjeman Poetry Prize is open to  young poets aged 10-13 living anywhere across the British Isles. Write a poem on the theme of ‘place’. Top fifty poems are printed in the BPP 2019 anthology. All finalists are invited on a 3-day Poetry Camp in Spring 2020. Every teacher who enters their class joins a prize draw to win a poet visit. Free to enter. For more information go to www.betjemanpoetryprize.co.uk.

Winchester Poetry Prize | Closing Date: 31-Jul-19
FIRST PRIZE: £1000, SECOND PRIZE: £500, THIRD PRIZE: £250 There is also a prize for the best poem by a Hampshire-based poet.

In addition to receiving cash prizes winners and longlisted poets will be invited to read at a special prize-giving event in Winchester in October 2019. Winning and commended poems will also be published in a competition anthology.

The competition is open to all entries of original, previously unpublished work. [Full rules https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/wpp-rules ]

Poems can be entered by post or online.

Line limit: 40 lines

Judge: Helen Mort

Entry Fee: £5.00 for the first poem and £4.00 for each subsequent poem.

 For full details see   http://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize

Please note our new address: Winchester Poetry Festival, c/o Faculty of Arts, University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester, SO22 4NR

Indigo Dreams Collection Competition 2019.. Submission: 15 poetry pages up to 36 lines inc breaks. Online entries only.

Deadline : 31st July 2019  

First prize : Two winners will have a 52 page poetry collection published in 2020 and receive 20 copies. £15 per block of poems.

See full submission rules at

https://www.indigodreams.co.uk/collection-competition-2019/4594634359

CULPEPPER’S REMEDY POETRY BOOKLET COMPETITION 2019

We will be publishing up to six new booklets of poems each year, and these will be selected by competition. Our competition will be judged by poet and editor, LUCY TURNBULL of OPTIMUM MAGAZINE.   First prize is Publication and 50 free copies of the booklet.   Help will also be given to prepare the final manuscript. Entry is £10 and there may be more than one winner. Please submit a proposed collection of up to 10 poems in the first instance before Monday 19^th August 2019.  Shortlisted poets may be asked to submit the whole collection of up to 36 poems for the editor’s final decision.

For further details and to enter online see

https://culpeppersremedy.wordpress.com/competition-2019/   

Next Echo/Cultural Weekly’s 7th Annual Jack Grapes Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. This contest is FREE to enter.
3 WINNERS will receive $250 each, plus publication. 6 FINALISTS will receive $75 each, plus publication. 

Complete rules can be found at: https://www.culturalweekly.com/2019-jack-grapes-poetry-prize-submissions-now-open/   submission closes -  August 31, 2019, Midnight Pacific Time

Submission form: https://www.culturalweekly.com/submissions/

Women's Poetry Competition

All women poets are invited to submit poems to our exciting competition, judged by acclaimed poet and writer Malika Booker. The winner of which will receive £2,000, an optional writing retreat with PBS Selector Sandeep Parmar and a residency kindly provided by Cove Park. For the entree fee of £10 you can submit up to 3 poems, or more across multiple submissions! Winning poets will also be featured in the Mslexia magazine, and a selection in the PBS Bulletin. 

1st - £2000, alongside publication in Mslexia and the PBS Bulletin poetry magazine, as well as the chance to be mentored by PBS Book Selector Sandeep Parmar and attend a writing retreat at Scotland's International Artist Residency Centre, Cover Park.

2nd - £400

3rd - £250

Special prize - £250 to best poem by an unpublished woman poet

For more details, please visit: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/mslexia-pbs-womens-poetry-prize 

Women's Pamphlet Competition

Women poets who have not previously had a full collection published are invited to submit a new poetry pamphlet, judged by Seren Books' poetry editor Amy Wack. There is an entrance fee of £20 and you can enter multiple pamphlets across multiple submissions. The winning pamphlet will be selected for publication by Seren Books, and the poet will win £250! 

For more details, please visit: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/mslexia-pbs-womens-poetry-prize 

Reuben Rose Poetry Competition

Entries must be received no later than October 3rd 2019

Katherine L. Gordon is a rural Ontario poet, publisher, author, judge and reviewer.   She is an award winning writer whose works have been published internationally and translated into several languages.

Her books may be found at Craigleigh Press, Passion among the Cacti Press, Hidden Brook Press, Serengeti Press, Melinda, Cochrane International, Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, as well as many anthologies, books and chapbooks with fine contemporaries whose works inspire her. She dedicates her time to the promotion of poetry as the essential link to cultural unity.

First prize is $500, second prize is $150, third prize is $50.

Ten honorable mentions are awarded.

Prizewinners and all honorable mentions will be published in the Voices Israel 2020 poetry anthology.

 Submission and payment via “Submittable”. Click the link to submit directly:
https://voicesisrael.submittable.com/submit
Or see full guidelines and submission details at

http://www.voicesisrael.com/reubenrosecompetition.htm

Moth Poetry Prize
1^st prize €10,000, 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000. The prize is open to anyone (over 16) and is for an unpublished poem. The four shortlisted poems will be published in the spring 2020 issue of The Moth and the overall winner will be announced at a special award ceremony at Poetry Ireland in Dublin on 30 April 2020. There is an entry fee of €15 per poem. This year’s judge is Claudia Rankine.

For more details see   http://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=8466&page=21