Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2013
Closing Date: 21/10/2013
Info: Up to 45 lines
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The National Poetry Competition is an award for individual poems that are previously unpublished.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
Rialto Magazine - Nature Poetry Competition
Closing Date: 30th September 2013
Competion is run in partnership with the RSPB,
and will be judged by poet and broadcaster Ruth Padel.The poetry
magazine and Europe's largest conservation charity are encouraging poets
to submit work in response to the competition theme, 'Nature Poetry'.
Prizes: Publication in The Rialto, 1st Prize £1000, 2nd Prize £400, 3rd
Prize a place on a creative writing course at Ty Newydd in 2014 (worth
£540).
Entry Fee: £6 for the first poem and £3 for each subsequent poem
Contact: For rules and to enter visit: www.therialto.co.uk
For further information: Matt Howard, RSPB and a member of The Rialto's Advisory Board, 01603 697515 or matthew.howard@rspb.org.uk
National Poetry Competition 2013
Closing Date: 31st October 2013
Details:
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
Contact: 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/
The Colour of Saying - Dylan Thomas Creative Writing Competition
Closing Date: 27th April 2014
Details:
For ages 10 to adult. Responses invited to the
poem 'The Hunchback in the Park'. They can be in poetry, prose-poems,
prose, diary form, and letter form. The best of the submissions will be
judged by international writers/translators and published in an
anthology which will appear on the 27th October 2014, the centenary of Dylan
Thomas's birth. The remainder of the submissions will appear in phases
on website. Part of the remit of the competition is to encourage trauma
or war victims, prisoners, abused wives or husbands, immigrants or
refugees to a new country who do not speak the country's language and so
entries are welcome in the writer's mother tongue (whatever the
language is) or in the writer's dialect, together with (if possible) an
English translation. Submissions are limited to one page each for the
original and translation. Please see website for full details.
Entry Fee: £0.00
Contact: Submissions must be sent to colour@dylandownthups.org.uk
as a word attachment, which should include the age of the entrant and contact details.
www.dylandowntheups.org.uk
Lindfield Arts Festival : Poetry for the People Competition | Closing Date: 31-Mar-13
Details:
Poets are invited to contribute one A4 page of
their poetry (one or more poems) to be displayed in the windows of
village shops, cafes, restaurants etc. for the public to read and, if
they so
wish, to rate by a mark out of 10 on voting slips inside the premises.
No prizes but exposure
of the most popular in local media and a souvenir booklet. See website
for full details.
Entry Fee: £0.00
Contact: The Poetry Organiser, Lindfield Arts Festival, 45 Meadow Drive, Lindfield, West Sussex RH16 2RS
www.lindfieldartsfestival.com/about/festival-activities/poetry-festival/
Poetry-next-the-Sea Competition 2013 | Closing Date: 06-Apr-13
Details:
For poems up to 40 lines. Maximum of three poems per entrant.
Judge: Heidi Williamson. First prize, £100; then £50 and £25. Part of the Poetry-next-the-Sea Poetry Festival.
Entry Fee: £2 for 1 poem; £4 for 2 poems and £5 for 3
Contact: Full details and entry form at: http://www.poetry-next-the-sea.com/pages/competition.html
Send your entries to:
Poetry-next-the-Sea, 93 Queen's Road, Fakenham, NR21 8BU
Cheques payable to: Poetry-next-the-Sea
The SCJ Poetry Award | Closing Date: 30-Apr-13
Details:
Poem up to 40 lines. Themes (which may be broadly
interpreted): Childhood. Culture. Education. Prizes: Adults: 1st £1000
2nd £700 3rd £300.
Under 18: 1st £250 2nd £150 3rd £100. Commendations (£10 book tokens):
five adult, ten under 18. Judges Moniza Alvi and Catherine Smith.
An anthology will be published. This competition is in aid of Cardiac
Risk in the Young which raises awareness of heart conditions and funds
investigations and screening programmes for those at risk of sudden
death.
Entry Fee: £0 for under 18s. Adults: £5 for up to 3 poems.
Contact:
The New Malden Health Centre, 4 Blagdon Road, New Malden, Surrey KT3 4AD
Cheques made payable to CRY
www.c-r-y.org.uk/index.htm
Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Awards 2013 | Closing Date: 07-May-13
Details:
Short collections of poetry of between 18 and 24
pages are invited, containing poems of any length or style, provided
each page contains no more than forty lines. Submissions should also
include Title & Contents information. Winning poets receive
publication in a Templar Poetry Pamphlet, a
Launch Reading at the 2013 Derwent Poetry Festival and an
opportunity to submit a collection for consideration and publication.
They also receive a cash prize of £250. Up to 30 runners-up will be
published in a Templar anthology. The judge is Alexander McMillen. See
website for full details.
Entry Fee: £20 (online); £18 (postal)
Contact:
www.templarpoetry.com/collections/awards/products/the-templar-poetry-pamphlet-collection-awards-2013
Please contact the organisers directly with any questions, thank you!
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