Cheers! A bottle of laureate's sherry is prize in libraries centenary competition
Northumberland Libraries are staging a poetry competition to mark their centenary, and the return of the Northern Poetry Library to Morpeth Library. The competition is open to Northumberland Library members and residents of Northumberland, although anyone can choose to join the library online and be eligible to enter. The deadline is 9 September, and the winner will receive a bespoke bottle of Lau...
14th August 2024
Wendy French to judge £5,000 Hippocrates prizes
Poet Wendy French, Harvard physician and poet Rafael Campo, and Gareth Powell, secretary of the Methodist Church conference, will judge the £5,000 Hippocrates open and NHS prizes for poetry and medicine. The judges are joined by poet Siân Hughes, who will select the winner of the £500 Hippocrates Yo...
1st January 2016
Deadline approaching for £2,000 Mslexia competition
Wendy Cope will be judging the £2,000 Mslexia poetry competition, with an extra prize of £1,000 for the best poem by a previously unpublished woman poet. There is also a separate pamphlet competition,...
13th June 2014
Writing the World
Cool it Schools – the global online climate change and environmental project for young people, have launched a new poetry competition to celebrate the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
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14th April 2010