We are very pleased that Tiffany Atkinson has agreed to be our adjudicator for the 2019 Crabbe Poetry Prize. She is the Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, has published several collections of Poetry, including Kink and Particle (which won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize) Catulla et al (which was TLS Book of the Year) and So Many Moving Parts (which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award – Wales book of the Year). She has a strong interest in the medical humanities, especially the history of anatomy and representations of the body and has written several critical essays about the poetics of embarrassment.
The closing date for the competition is 29th June 2019.
Entry fees: £3 for each poem.
Culpepper's Remedy Poetry Competition is now accepting entries for this year's prize. Poems will be judged by Lucy Turnbull, poet and editor of Optimum Magazine.
Entries are open for poems on any theme. Poems may be of any length.
•	All poems will be considered for the 2019 anthology.
The 2019 Erbacce-Prize for Poetry is now open to entries for this year's prize.
Entries are free and open to anyone anywhere in the world. Poems may be on any theme.
•	First prize: a publishing contract with Erbacce Press.
•	Second prize: consideration of a publishing contract with Erbacce Press.
•	Third prize: consideration of a publishing contract with Erbacce Press.
•	Four runners-up will be featured and published in upcoming issues of Erbacce Journal.
•	You may submit five pages of poetry to the competition. These must be submitted in a Microsoft Word document and typeset in Times New Roman (12pt). The title of this document must be your full name.
•	Please insert your full name and postal address in the body of the email.
•	Please write 'Erbacce-Prize 2019' in the subject line of the email.
•	Do not include 'frames'.
•	Please bear in mind that while previously published work is accepted, we would love to see some unpublished work too.
•	Finally, please note that indexes, commentaries, biographies and contact details are not needed at this point in the process. Each submission is read blind and we do not wish to identify the author behind the manuscript in our initial stages. If we should find any of these details on your document, we will no longer consider your entry.
The theme of this year’s competition is The Spirit of Childhood. Childhood is a time of magic and mystery, powerful emotions and experiences that remain in our hearts a lifetime. Some of these experiences are wonderful and nourish us into old age, other experiences are more painful and cast long shadows that we struggle to shake.
Frogmore Poetry Prize 2019 .
Closing date for submissions: 31 May 2019.The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2019 will receive two hundred and fifty guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications.
1. Please send one poem per sheet and submission as one document (if email). Poems must be your own work.
2. Entries are judged anonymously so poems must not bear any identifying marks.
3. Submitted poems may have been published online, in anthology or magazines but not as a complete collection.
4. ONLINE ENTRIES: Email address competitions@indigodreams.co.uk ONLY.
Send one email with name, address, collection title and PayPal transaction number. Subject heading ‘Geoff Stevens’. Send one subsequent email with same subject heading, collection title and poems as attachment. Send as Word Document or Rich Test File. NO PDF.
5. PRINT ENTRIES: Send collection title and poems in one envelope. Include a separate sealed envelope with name, address, collection title so that anonymity is maintained. Give PayPal transaction number or enclose cheque payable to ‘IDP’. Include postcard/sae if acknowledgement required and further sae for results. Submit to address below.
6. Winning collections will be up to 52 pages in length and published June 2019.
7. More than one entry may be submitted provided it is accompanied by the correct entry fee.
8. All entries will be treated as copies and cannot be returned.
9. By submitting to this competition you are agreeing to details of winners / short and longlisted entrants to be displayed on this website, social media and elsewhere.
is for women over 60. Poems up to 40 lines on any theme. Judges: Julia Deakin and Janet Loverseed. Prizes: £100, £75, £25. Download rules and entry form from website or send sae to Grey Hen Press, PO Box 269, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 9FE. Closing date: 30 April. Entry Fee £3.00 per poem, £10 for four.
•a piece of Flash Fiction up to 500 words.
We are looking for Three New Poets who will have a debut pamphlet published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press and receive 100 copies of their collection.
Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition 2019 and that Christy Ducker has agreed to judge for us this year.
We will be awarding a first prize of €500, second of €250 and third of €100.
Entry is E12 and cam be up to 3 poems.
We invite entries for poems on any theme related to politics.
The closing date for entries is April 22nd 2019.
Littoral Press Nature Poetry Competition The littoral press will be holding a yearly competition for a full collection of nature/spiritual/environmental poetry.
The book will be A5 in format, perfect bound, with full colour covers (gloss laminated or matt laminated according to the winning author’s choice), between 50 pages minimum and 100 pages maximum in length. It will have an ISBN number and therefore be subject to ‘Legal Deposit’. This means that one copy will be sent to each of the major universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Dublin and Edinburgh, where they will be archived; and a further copy will be deposited with the British Library. There will be no need for a contract. The copyright will remain exclusively with the poet to do whatever he or she wishes with those rights. The deadline for the second competition is December 31st 2018. Results will be published on the Littoral Press website sometime in February 2019. Entrants will be charged £20.00 per manuscript.
Please read full details of the competition and its rules and conditions.
50 poems will be longlisted and published in our 2018 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed by the Live Canon ensemble at our prize giving event at Greenwich Theatre. 1 poem will receive a winning prize of £ 1000.
Every year Mslexia runs four competitions, open to women writers of all levels of experience. For prose writers, we have a Short Story Competition and a Novel Competition, and for writers of verse we have a Poetry Competition for single poems, and a Pamphlet Competition for completed collections.
With feedback and substantial monetary prizes available, our competitions were created to help women writers progress. Winners have gone on to secure publishing deals and literary agents after years of searching – this year it could be you. Good luck!
In memory of Professor Bill Overton (1946-2012), the School of the Arts, English and Drama offers this prize for a sequence of poems on any subject, up to 300 lines.
The first-placed entry will be published in chapbook form. 100 copies will be published, of which the winning poet will receive 50. Please see links below for examples of previous winners.
Two runners-up will each receive £50 book tokens.
The Overton Poetry Prize 2018 will close on 20th December 2018, and the winner will be announced in February 2019.
Entries and payment of fee (£12 per sequence of poetry) can be made online.
Hard copy entries must be accompanied by a cheque to: Loughborough University, FAO: Grace Lewis, LU Arts, Martin Hall, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU by 20th December 2018.
We are inviting you to send us poems for a competition in aid of the Lord Whisky Sanctuary. The theme of this year’s competition is SANCTUARY. This theme can be interpreted as you wish, e.g. a rescue centre for animals or human victims, a shelter for refugees, a sacred place, the abstract idea of a place of safety, a narrative poem about someone seeking safety, sanctuary that’s found in love etc.
Two further prizes of 2.5% of total entry fees for a poem on an animal sanctuary.and its work One of these prizes will be reserved for a previously unpublished poet. A list of shortlisted poems and poets will be published.
Entry fee: £5 per poem. Entry is by donation to the Sanctuary (see rules for further details on how to submit). 50% of all proceeds will be used by the Sanctuary for the care of the animals. Last year the competition raised over £400 for the charity and gave total prizes of over £400.
Judge: award-winning poet Derek Sellen, the current Canterbury Poet of the Year.
This year's competition is for poetry on any subject.
that a short poem is just as likely to be selected as a longer one.
3 categories: Silver Wyvern Open – Formal verse – theme ‘Spirit’ (interpret as wished.
Cost: £5.00 first poem and £3.50 for each additional submission.
Winners will be notified individually by 31st March 2019 & all results will be published on the Web Site.
The Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2019 Competition opens 1 November 2018. Poems on any subject, not exceeding 35 lines, will be judged by John Greening.
Shortlisted poets will be invited to read at Teignmouth Poetry Festival on 23 March 2019, and winning poems will be published on the website.
The Allingham Festival 2018 Flash Fiction and Poetry Competitions are now open!
Our competitions are designed to recognise and reward talented writers who, following in the footsteps of William Allingham, seek to launch or further their careers. The Allingham Festival includes competitions for adult writers of poetry and flash fiction, and also for children. The festival offers readings and workshops led by nationally-recognised literary figures where aspiring authors can meet, share ideas, and discuss the emerging trends in the world of writing and publishing.
South Downs Poetry Festival 2019, in alliance with Binsted Arts, is holding a poetry competition for the award of The Binsted Prize. This year's judge will be James Simpson.
Entry fee: £5 for the first poem £4 for each thereafter.
A prize-giving evening will take place on 7th June 2019 as part of Binsted Arts Weekend (June 7th-9th in Binsted, West Sussex). Winners will be invited to read and have their poems included on the Binsted Arts Festival and the South Downs Poetry Festival website. An anthology of winning and other poems is also planned.
This is a two-part competition, entry by email only, all rules and links for entering on Dempsey & Windle's website.
Submissions of 10 poems will be eligible for the Pamphlet Prize: publication of a 36 page pamphlet including 20 copies, plus £100 cash.
Submissions of 1 – 9 poems will be eligible for one of the three prizes in the Single Poem section: 1st prize: £75; 2nd prize: £50; 3rd prize: £25.
All long-listed entrants will receive the competition Anthology in which their poems will be published alongside invited poets.
Judges: Anna Saunders (founder of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival) will read all poems long-listed by Janice and Dónall Dempsey from the anonymous entries and select the winners. Poems can be on any subject, and must be unpublished and no longer than 40 lines including stanza breaks. No simultaneous entries, please.
The Charles Causley Poetry Competition has been set up to support the development of Charles Causley’s House in Launceston for poetry residencies and other literature activity. The Charles Causley Poetry Competition is now open for entries. 1st Prize: £2000. 2nd Prize: £250. 3rd Prize: £100 & 5 highly commended awards of £30 each.
Please see the attached advert for full details of the residency programme and how to apply. The terms and conditions of the residency programme can also be accessed below. The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 11th March.
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Over £5,000 to be won.
Closing date October 14, 2018.
Poems written as part of any of any PK Course are not eligible for entry.
Via our website and email – preferred.
Make the correct payment using the PayPal button, below.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the White Review Poet’s Prize 2018. The 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.
Crucially, 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.
Last year’s Prize was awarded to Lucy Mercer, whose portfolio was published in The White Review No. 22.
The judges for the 2018 White Review Poet’s Prize are Anne Boyer, Kayo Chingonyi, and Lavinia Greenlaw.
An award ceremony will be held in London, in early December, to announce the winner.
The submission period is 5 September 2018 until 5.00pm on 6 November 2018.
Only poems of 40 lines or less will be considered.
•The poems may be in any style and cover any subject.
•Work deemed to be offensive will not be considered.
•All entries must be the work of the poet submitting.
•Previously published poems are not permitted.
•We will not be accepting translations of poetry.
•No changes can be made to poems once they have been submitted.
•Any entries in violation to the above will be disqualified.
•No refunds will be given once work has been submitted.
•The decision from our judges is final.
•No correspondence regarding entries will be entered into.
To enter the competition, please pay the appropriate fee on Paypal.
Please submit all poems on one document via a word/docx. attachment.
Please also include your name, contact details and address in the body of the email.
No names should appear on the submitted document.
along with a cheque with the appropriate fee, made payable to Mark Connors.
Full Rules ;check website above.
The Poetry Society’s annual National Poetry Competition is one of the most prestigious prizes in the world for previously unpublished single poems and has a first prize of £5,000.
The 2018 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries! Judged by Kei Miller, Kim Moore and Mark Waldron, the deadline is 31 October 2018. Enter online at npc.poetrysociety.org.uk.
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.
judged by Jo Shapcott & Daljit Nagra, first prize £2,000, second prize £1,000 third prize: a week-long creative-writing course at the arvon centre of your choice with thanks to arvon: home of creative writing plus with thanks to leading poetry magazines & poetry publishers: 5 prizes of book bundles each with 6 latest poetry titles from Bloodaxe books,Carcanet,Faber & Faber, Nine arches press & Seren books 5 prizes of 1-yr poetry magazine subscriptions from Under the radar, Poetry wales PN Review, New Ohio Review & Mslexia.
Our competition celebrates Waltham Forest as London’s first Borough of Culture in 2019. The theme is “A Bright Future” and the entries will be judged by local poet Meryl Pugh.
There are three sections: National, Young Poets and a Local Prize for those living and working in the borough.
The prizes for the National Competition are: 1st prize (£300), 2nd (£200) and 3rd (£100). For the Young Poet and Local Competitions the prizes are identical: 1st (£50), 2nd (£30) and 3rd (£20).
Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2019 Prizes: £600, £300, £150, and the Ware Sonnet Prize (£150).
The 12th International Welsh Poetry Competition 2018 is now open and accepting entries! Judge - Sally Spedding. 50 lines maximum. 1st prize - £500 2nd Prize - £250 3rd Prize - £100 plus 17 runners up published on website and future anthology.
This year’s first prize is €1,000, with two runners-up prizes of €200 and €100 respectively.
There is an entry fee of €10 for up to three poems. The closing entry date is Friday, Sept 21st, 2018 at 6 pm. Winners will be announced during the festival on Thursday the 25th of October 2018. Shortlisted entrants will be notified one week in advance and invited to attend an open-mic night before the prizewinners are publically announced.
This annual competition is now in its sixteenth year and alternates between poetry and short stories. The competition in 2018 requires poetry to be entered.
Entry is free and open to anyone in the world over the age of 16 years. Individuals are limited to entering two poems only.
A writing course at the Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre or a UK Arvon Writing Centre. The winner will be announced at an event to be held at the AK Bell Library in Perth on Friday 26th April 2019.
A £50 book token will be awarded for the best work from a resident of Perth and Kinross.
•The deadline for all entries is Friday 1st February 2019.
•All entrants must be 16 years of age or over.
•Poems must not exceed 40 lines.
•A maximum of two poems may be submitted.
•All entries must be typed or word processed, on one side of the paper only.
•Two copies of each poem submitted must be provided.
•Entries may be in English or Scots.
•The competition is open to anyone throughout and outside the United Kingdom.
•All entries are judged anonymously and the name of the writer must not appear on the manuscript.
•Poems must not have been published, self-published, published on a website, broadcast or featured among the winners in another competition before 1st February 2019.
•Competition entries cannot be returned - please do not include a pre-paid envelope.
•The Judge’s decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into.
•Alterations cannot be made to poems once they have been submitted.
•Entries must be accompanied by an entry form (download below).
•There is no entry fee for this competition.
•Local entries (writers living in Perthshire at time of entry) can also be additionally entered for the local Soutar prize. Please tick the box on the entry form if this applies.
•It is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that the above rules are adhered to.
This year’s open poetry competition will be adjudicated by Anna Saunders, Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
Four prizes will be awarded: 1st prize £200; Two Runners Up £50 each; Special Wirral prize £50 for a poet living or working in Wirral.