Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2013
Closing Date: 21/10/2013
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Judges: Deryn Rees-Jones & George Szirtes.
Prizes: 1st £2,500, 2nd £500, 3rd £250, 20 prizes of £20 each - plus a spring 2014 coffee-house-poetry season-ticket, a prize-winners' coffee-house poetry reading with Deryn Rees-Jones & George Szirtes for prize-winning poets.
Entry Fee: £5/ 6 Euros/ $8 per poem
See full entry details at www.coffeehousepoetry.org/prizes/
By Post: Troubadour International Poetry Prize, Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON W4 1ZP.
By E-mail: CoffPoetry@aol.com
National Poetry Competition 2013
Closing Date: 31st October 2013
Prizes: First Prize: £5000, Second Prize: £2000, Third Prize: £1000, Seven Commendations: £100. The top-three winning poems will be published in Poetry Review. The winner is also invited to read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2014. Up to 150 entrants will also be offered a discount on selected activities from the Poetry School. Winning and commended poems will be published on the Poetry Society website when the competition prizes are announced in spring 2014.
Judges: The judges of the 2013 National Poetry Competition are Julia Copus, Matthew Sweeney and Jane Yeh.
The National Poetry Competition is an award for individual poems that are previously unpublished.
Entry Fee: £6 for first entry, £3.50 for subsequent entries
Postal Entries: National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society,22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX, UK
Enter online: http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/npc/
What's your Place?
Closing Date: 31st December 2013
Prize: £100 plus publication in our online magazine. Organised by Holland Park Press.
Theme: a poem about a neighbourhood that's important to you.
Entry Fee: £0
More information is available from http://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/magazine_detail.php?magazine_id=255&language=English
www.developingdylan100.com
The website for Developing Dylan, Literature Wales’ new education project, is now live and ready for you to explore.
Find out about the creative writing workshops which will be
available for teachers to book from 1 September, and discover the cross
art-form workshops which will get young people playing with Dylan’s
world through social media, music, visual art and spoken word.
Young writers from 7 to 25 will also be able to find out about
Prologue to an Adventure, the Developing Dylan international writing
competition.
The website offers a sneak preview into Dylan Live,
the live music and bilingual spoken word show which will bring Dylan
Thomas’ 1950s New York back to life through a fusion of vinyl, jazz,
beat poetry, hip hop and spoken word. Poets Martin Daws, Aneirin Karadog
and Zaru Jonson, hip hop artist Ed Holden, DJ Dyl Mei and academic Huw
Vaughan Williams will sample, re interpret and mix music that is
quintessentially New York with Dylan Thomas’ words for a unique live
experience. Coming to a student union bar near you soon…
Whether through prose, verse, music or visual art, Developing Dylan
will celebrate the diverse ways in which Dylan Thomas’ poetry can be
appreciated, shared and enjoyed.
Developing Dylan is funded by the Welsh Government and will form part of the official Dylan Thomas 100 Festival.
The Developing Dylan website was designed and developed by Ctrl.atl.design
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