Deadline nears for Wolf poetry competition
Following on from the success of our Milestone poetry competition (run in conjunction with the Milestone Society) Write Out Loud is collaborating with the Wolverhampton Original Literature Festival (WOLF) to run a poetry competition on their behalf.
The festival takes place over the last weekend of January 2018, and an exciting line-up – ranging from local writers’ groups to big literary names ...
28th December 2017
Deadline nears for €10,000 Moth poetry prize
Daljit Nagra will be judging the €10,000 Moth poetry prize, formerly the Ballymaloe poetry prize. The deadline is 31 December. More details
28th December 2017
Celebrating peace: poetry competition to mark centenary of first world war armistice
This picture of Londoners celebrating the signing of the Armistice that marked the end of the first world war in 1918 is a reminder that the Museum of Military Medicine is running a £500 poetry compet...
6th December 2017
John Greening to judge £600 Ware Poets competition
John Greening will be judging the £600 Ware Poets open poetry competition. The deadline is 30 April 2018. More details
28th November 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Cafe Writers competition
Liz Berry is the sole judge of the £1,000 Café Writers poetry competition. The deadline is 30 November. More details
25th November 2017
Deadline nears for £500 Verve poetry festival competition
Luke Kennard will be judging the £500 Verve poetry festival competition for city-themed poems. The authors of the best 15 poems will be invited to read alongside six commissioned poets at a special ev...
23rd November 2017
Sam Buchan-Watts to judge Poetry Book Society's Student Poetry Prize
Sam Buchan-Watts will be judging the Poetry Book Society’s Student Poetry Prize, open to all current students aged over 18. The entry fee is £10, but it is free to members of the PBS. The first prize ...
3rd November 2017
Deadline nears for National Poetry Competition
The 31 October deadline is approaching for the £5,000 National Poetry Competition, with judges Hannah Lowe, Andrew McMillan and Pascale Petit. The competition’s organisers, the Poetry Society, have al...
19th October 2017
Deadline nears for £2,000 Troubadour prize
Imtiaz Dharker and Michael Symmons Roberts will be judging the £2,000 Troubadour poetry prize. The deadline is 16 October. More details
12th October 2017
Marsden's Poster Poems competition - here are the winners!
The winning poems in the Marsden Poster Poems competition have been announced. The quest was to find music-related poems to be posted in shops, pubs café and other sites in Marsden in the run-up to th...
6th October 2017
TLS relaunches £3,000 competition as Mick Imlah poetry prize
The Times Literary Supplement is bringing back its poetry competition, which ran annually from 1996 to 2003, and again in 2007 and 2008. It will be named after Mick Imlah, pictured, poetry editor of t...
21st September 2017
Littoral Press competition to publish nature, spiritual or environmental poems
The Littoral Press is holding a twice-yearly competition for a full collection of nature/spiritual/environmental poetry. The winning poet will receive 50 copies of his collection free of charge. The e...
12th September 2017
Call for poems to display in shop windows at Marsden jazz festival
Could you write a short poem to delight the thousands of visitors to the Marsden jazz festival? Marsden the Poetry Village is inviting submissions of original poems to be displayed on A3 posters in sh...
1st September 2017
Wayne Holloway-Smith to judge £500 Bare Fiction poetry prize
Wayne Holloway-Smith will be judging the £500 Bare Fiction poetry prize. The deadline is 31 October. More details
30th August 2017
Making waves: Luke Wright to judge sound files in spoken poetry contest
Leading performance poet Luke Wright will be judging Making Waves, a new spoken poetry competition in which poets are invited to send in short spoken poems of 200 seconds as digital sound files. The f...
30th August 2017
Deadline nears for £600 PN Review competitions
The 1 September deadline is nearing for the inaugural £600 PN Review poetry competitions for best poem and best translation. You can enter both categories but the same entrant cannot win both prizes. ...
29th August 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Oxford Brookes poetry competition
Helen Mort will be judging Oxford Brookes University’s £1,000 poetry competition, which also has an English as an Additional Language category. The deadline is 28 August. More details
23rd August 2017
Write Out Loud's Milestones competition - get ready for the results!
The results of Write Out Loud’s Milestones competition, which has been judged by Brian Patten and is being run on behalf of the Milestone Society, are almost ready to be announced. The list of first, ...
22nd August 2017
Michael Symmons Roberts to judge £1,000 Plough poetry prize
Michael Symmons Roberts will be judging the £1,000 Plough poetry prize and the £1,000 Ronald Duncan short poem competition. The deadline is 31 January 2018. More details
16th August 2017
Fiona Sampson to judge £1,000 Graves prize
The £1,000 Robert Graves prize is a new poetry prize launched this year as a collaboration between Roehampton Poetry Centre and Wimbledon BookFest. The judges will be Fiona Sampson, professor of poetr...
15th August 2017
Deadline nears for £600 Buzzwords competition
Adam Horovitz will be judging the £600 Buzzwords open poetry competition, organised by the regular poetry night in Cheltenham. The deadline is 26 August. More details
7th August 2017
Deadline nears for Poetry Book Fair's £500 competition
Daljit Nagra will be judging the Poetry Book Fair’s £500 poetry competition on the theme of hope, alongside book fair organisers Joey Connolly and Chrissy Williams. They’re looking for a short poem (1...
5th August 2017
Born, living, or working in Sussex? You can enter the £1,000 Brighton & Hove poetry competition
If you were born in, or are resident, working or studying in Sussex, you’re eligible to enter the Brighton and Hove arts council’s £1,000 poetry competition. The deadline is 15 October, and prizes wil...
1st August 2017
Carrie Etter to judge £500 Bradford on Avon poetry competition
Carrie Etter will be judging the £500 Bradford on Avon arts festival poetry competition. Organisers want poems of up to 20 lines on the theme of “flights of fancy”. The deadline is 30 July. More detai...
28th July 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Winchester poetry prize
Sarah Howe will be judging the £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
27th July 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition
Fiona Sampson will be judging the £1,000 Ledbury poetry festival competition. The deadline is 13 July. More details
4th July 2017
Gillian Clarke to judge £750 Wells festival poetry competition
Gillian Clarke will be judging the £750 Wells festival of literature poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
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27th June 2017
Deadline nears for £700 Battered Moons poetry competition
Malika Booker will be judging the £700 Battered Moons poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
25th June 2017
Sinéad Morrissey to judge £2,000 Mslexia poetry competition
Sinéad Morrissey will be judging the £2,000 Mslexia women’s poetry competition, and Amy Wack, poetry editor of publishers Seren, will be judging Mslexia’s poetry pamphlet competition. The deadline for...
13th June 2017
Deadline nears for £500 Welsh poetry competition
Kathy Miles will be judging the £500 Welsh poetry competition. The deadline is 18 June. More details
1st June 2017
Deadline nears for £5,000 Bridport poetry competition
Lemn Sissay will be looking for poems that “electrify me, seduce me, grip me by the neck, carry me, whisper to me and sing to me” when he judges the £5,000 Bridport poetry prize. The deadline is 31 Ma...
24th May 2017
Penelope Shuttle to judge £700 Torbay poetry festival competition
Penelope Shuttle will be judging the £700 Torbay poetry festival competition. The deadline is 31 August. More details
19th May 2017
New poetry competition offers a prize every fortnight
A publisher has launched a poetry competition in which a winner is declared every fortnight. Eyewear’s Fortnight New Poem prize “is meant to celebrate poetry in a fast-paced digital world, where too o...
10th May 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Poetry London competition
Liz Berry will be judging Poetry London’s £1.000 poetry competition. The deadline is 2 May. More details
2nd May 2017
Deadline nears for £600 Ver Poets competition
Tamar Yoseloff will be judging the £600 Ver Poets competition. The deadline is 30 April. More details
24th April 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Basil Bunting award
The deadline is 7 April for the £1,000 Basil Bunting poetry prize. The judge is Ahren Warner, editor of Poetry London magazine. More details
4th April 2017
Maura Dooley to judge £1,000 McLellan poetry prize
Maura Dooley will be judging the £1,000 McLellan poetry prize. The deadline is 21 June. More details
1st April 2017
Deadline nears for £600 Bristol poetry prize
Liz Berry will be judging the £600 Bristol poetry prize, organised by the Poetry Can. The deadline is 31 March. More details
22nd March 2017
Deadline nears for £250 Otley poetry prize
Matthew Hedley Stoppard, the town poet of Otley in West Yorkshire, will be judging the £250 Otley poetry prize. The deadline is 20 March. More details
15th March 2017
Publishers launch poetry pamphlet competition
Dempsey & Windle Publishing have launched their poetry pamphlet competition, with first prize £50 and a 30-page chapbook of the winner’s poems. All poems submitted also have the chance to be included ...
27th February 2017
Deadline nears for £500 York literature festival poetry competition
Antony Dunn will be judging York literature festival’s 2017 poetry competition. The first prize is £500, and the deadline is 28 February. More details
24th February 2017
Deadline nears for Poetry Business competition
Ian Duhig and Mimi Khalvati will be judging the Poetry Business book and pamphlet competition, and shortlisting the inaugural £1,000 Wordsworth Trust single poem prize. Poetry Business competition ent...
23rd February 2017
Jackie Wills to judge £400 South Downs poetry festival competition
Jackie Wills will be judging the £400 South Downs poetry festival competition. The deadline is 19 May. More details
17th February 2017
Jane Commane to judge £450 Manchester Cathedral poetry competition
Publisher, editor and poet Jane Commane will be judging the £450 Manchester Cathedral poetry competition. The deadline is 30 June. More details
10th February 2017
Deadline nears for Poets & Players competition
Michael Symmons Roberts will be judging the Poets & Players £500 poetry competition. The deadline is 27 February. More details
PHOTOGRAPH: GREG FREEMAN / WRITE OUT LOUD
10th February 2017
Looking for poems about courage to put on display in Huddersfield
Huddersfield literature festival, which takes place 4-19 March, is looking for poems about courage, with selected poems appearing in prominent spaces and shops within the town centre. The competition ...
27th January 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Plough prize
Philip Gross will be judging the £1,000 Plough poetry competition. The deadline is 30 January 2017. More details
17th January 2017
Deadline nears for £500 Teignmouth poetry festival competition
Mario Petrucci will be judging the £500 Teignmouth poetry festival competition, with Rebecca Gethin adjudicating in the £100 local prize. The deadline is 31 January 2017. More details
16th January 2017
Niall Campbell to judge £500 Interpreter's House competition
Niall Campbell will be judging the £500 Interpreter’s House competition. The deadline is 31 January 2017. More details
7th January 2017
Deadline nears for £1,000 Magma prize
Jane Draycott will be the main judge for the £1,000 Magma poetry prize of 11-50 lines. The deadline is 16 January. A panel of five judges will judge a separate £1,000 prize for a poem of up to 10 line...
6th January 2017
