The White Review Poet’s Prize was founded in 2017 with support from Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and is for English-language poets who are at the crucial stage of creating their debut pamphlet or collection.

The winning poet will receive a significant financial reward of £1700, expert, personalised professional and editorial advice, and publication of their entry in The White Review.

The Prize is open to residents of the UK and Ireland. The White Review Poet’s Prize only accepts entries of poetry portfolios (5 – 10 pages per portfolio), as opposed to single-poem entries.

The Poet’s Prize is also unique among UK poetry prizes in actively encouraging work which explores and expands the possibilities of the page-poetry form.

The judges for the 2019 White Review Poet’s Prize are Rachael Allen, Kayo Chingonyi, and Ariana Reines.

An award ceremony will be held in London, in early December, to announce the winner

The Poetry Society's Young Poets Network is teaming up with Little Angel Theatre to challenge young writers aged up to 25 to get inspired by Edward Lear and Little Angel Theatre’s production of ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ - and write some nonsense poetry.

There are plenty of prompts and ideas to get you started. Prizes include publication on Young Poets Network and goodies from The Poetry Society and Little Angel Theatre. 

See http://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/edward-lear-nonsense-poetry-challenge/

This annual competition celebrates the life and legacy of Cornish poet, Charles Causley, and will be judged this year by Michael Rosen.

First prize is £2,000 plus a 1-week writing residency at Cyprus Well, the poet's former home in Launceston.

Second prize is £250, third prize is £100 and there will be 5 x Highly Commended prizes of £30.

For more details see  https://causleytrust.org/charles-causley-international-poetry-competition-2019/

Wales Poetry Award is a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry.

After 55 years of publishing contemporary poetry in 212 issues (and counting) of its magazine, Poetry Wales launches Wales Poetry Award, a national competition to discover the very best international contemporary poetry.  Wales Poetry Award is open to single poem entries from new and established poets from Wales and beyond, with 3 awards and 10 highly commended prizes to be won.

Winning poems will be published in upcoming issues of Poetry Wales and shortlisted poets will be invited to attend an awards reception in February 2020 where our award winners will be announced and receive their prizes.

for further details see https://poetrywales.co.uk/award/

The Littoral Press is holding an annual competition for a full collection of nature, spiritual, environment poetry.

60 copies of the winning collection will be published by the Littoral Press.

For more information  https://littoralpressuk.jimdofree.com/home-1/poetry-competition/

The East Riding Festival of Words 2019 Poetry competition is now open for entries. This year's theme is 'My Mind, My Thoughts'.

Entries will be judged by a panel of published Yorkshire poets, led by James Nash. Poems are submitted anonymously, so each entry is judged on its own merits. Winners will be invited to read their poems at the special event, Poet Fest, in Bridlington in January 2020.

Larkin prize: £500 Second prize: £200  Third Prize: £100

Young Poets Prize
If you can say the words, you can write the words. Express yourself through poetry - whatever shape or form - and you could win £50! The competition is open to all school aged children, with one prize for primary and one for secondary.  Primary school prize: £50  Secondary school prize: £75

You only need to open one of the ‘Best Poets of the – choose your favourite – Century’ books to realise that women poets have never received their share of recognition. The Hedgehog Press are aiming to put that right with an anthology of poetry inspired by the often disregarded greats.

So whether it is the work of Plath or Dickinson that inspires you, or if you have read wider and love Judith Sargent Murray, Wislawa Szymborska or Pauli Murray, this is your opportunity to pay tribute to them.

Hedgehog Press ask that you write and dedicate a poem to a female writer who you feel should be better respected. This can be written ‘in the style of’ or just draw influence from a favourite poem of theirs – you could even choose to see today’s world through your heroine’s eyes, as it were – it is entirely up to you to decide.

Include the poet’s name as either the poem title or a dedication.

The winner will:

Receive £100 in Prize Money

Receive 250 copies of their poem beautifully printed in Artcard form

Seeing their poem beautifully reproduced in a great new Anthology, to be published by the Hedgehog Poetry Press

All shortlisted poets will be invited to have their poem included in the anthology too and of course everybody who has their work featured will receive copies of the finished work.

The competition will be judged by Mark Davidson, Editor of The Hedgehog Poetry Press

for more information see https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/tell-the-hog/

The poem should be metrical, and should be no longer than 100 lines, though extracts from longer work are permitted. There are no formal or thematic restraints, and so long as it is written in a discernible metre (or several!), entrants are encouraged to follow their fancy, whether that leads to the outlandish, the passionate, or even the dull.

The best poems will feature in Anglica's journal, and in addition the winner shall receive a £50 prize, and one runner up shall receive a prize of £20.

For more details see https://anglica.co.uk/poetry-competition/

The Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition 2019 Prizes:

1st: £1000  2nd: £300   3rd: £200

Five Commended Prizes of £50

Norfolk Prize £100 (best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident not winning another prize)

Sole Judge: Zaffar Kunial. Published by Faber & Faber, Zaffar Kunial’s debut book Us (2018) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Previously a Faber New Poet, Zaffar has also been a prizewinner in the National Poetry Competition and has won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and a Northern Writers’ Award.

For more information see http://www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-competition/

Open to anyone aged 18 or over from any country. Poems must be unpublished, in English and no longer than 40 lines (excluding title and line breaks).

Judge: Sarah James/Leavesley - prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer and editor at V. Press.

First Prize - £100
Second Prize - £75
Third Prize - £50

For further details see https://againstthegrainpoetrypress.wordpress.com/competition/

The 2019 Plough International Poetry Prize is now open and the judge this year is Greta Stoddart, author of the award-winning poetry books At Home in the Dark and Salvation Jane. 

Entries are invited for poems of up to 40 lines for the chance to win:

1st prize £1000  2nd prize £500 n  3rd prize £250 

For further details see  https://www.theploughprize.co.uk/

The Judge is poet Carrie Etter, author of Imagined Sons, Divining for Starters, and The Tethers. She will read all the submissions.

First prize: £1,000

Second prize: £300

Third prize: £100

Plus 4 x £50

The prize-winning poems will be published in the Society’s Poetry Folio in September 2020, and on the Society's website.

For further information see https://kentandsussexpoetry.com/the-kent-sussex-poetry-society-open-competition/

With the Japan Rugby World Cup and Tokyo Olympics, 2019-2020 is an important period for Japan and sport. So, you may be inspired to do more physical activity: do you like team or individual sports? Dancing in your bedroom? Or simply walking outdoors in nature? This year the Japan Society are looking for haiku that express the feeling as you score a goal or lose a game, jump up high or tumble on the ground, run through grass or conquer a mountain! Any theme that is connected to 'Sports' is eligible for this competition.

First Prize for 3 students: Canon digital camera. Other prizes will also be awarded.

The first Haiku Contest was organised by the JAL Foundation in 1990 and one has been held every two years since then. Japan Airlines, with support and assistance from the Japan Society, is pleased to announce the 2019-2020 Contest.

See https://www.japansociety.org.uk/47079/haiku-contest-2019-2020/