Poems on exile sought to mark Byron bicentenary
The £1,000 Keats-Shelley prizes for essays and poems have opened for entries. The theme for this year’s prizes is ‘Exile’, to mark the bicentenary of Byron’s death.
Entrants to the Keats-Shelley prize and Young Romantics prize poetry competitions should submit a poem, contemporary in style, on the theme of ‘Exile’. The Keats-Shelley essay prize will remain open, with entrants able to explore a...
30th November 2024
Roger McGough to judge Arts Richmond poetry prize
Roger McGough will be judging the £250 Arts Richmond poetry prize. The theme is 'Changes'. The deadline is 17 January 2025. More details
30th November 2024
Kit Fan to judge £1,000 Kent & Sussex Poetry Society competition
Kit Fan will be judging the £1,000 Kent & Sussex Poetry Society open poetry competition. The deadline is 31 January 2025. More details
30th November 2024
Wendy Pratt to judge Shepton Mallet Snowdrop festival poetry competition
Wendy Pratt will be judging the £300 Shepton Mallet Snowdrop festival poetry competition. The theme is 'Treasures of nature'. The deadline is 6 January 2025. More details
30th November 2024
Helen Mort to judge £1,000 Rialto Nature and Place competition
Helen Mort will be judging the 2025 Rialto Nature and Place poetry competition. First prize is £1,000, and the deadline is 1 April 2025. More details
2nd November 2024
Deadline nearing for National Poetry Competition entries
The 31 October deadline is nearing for the Poetry Society's £5,000 2024 National Poetry Competition entries. This year's judges are Stephen Sexton, Romalyn Ante and John McAuliffe. More details here
...28th October 2024
Jacqueline Saphra to judge Waltham Forest competition
Jacqueline Saphra will be judging the £400 Waltham Forest poetry competition on the theme of Friendship. There is also an extra prize for the funniest poem. The deadline is 14 October. More details
3rd October 2024
Deadline nears for £2,000 Troubadour poetry prize
The 23 September deadline is nearing for entries to the £2,000 Troubadour international poetry prize, run by Coffee-House Poetry. The judges are Jane Yeh and Glyn Maxwell. More details
7th September 2024
Clare Shaw to judge Winchester poetry prize
Clare Shaw will be judging this year’s £1,000 Winchester poetry prize. The deadline is 31 July. More details
29th June 2024
Fran Lock and Alan Morrison to judge Bread and Roses poetry awards
Fran Lock and Alan Morrison will be judging the 2024 Bread and Roses poetry award organised by Culture Matters. There will be five prizes of £100 each for the best poems. Entry is free, and the deadli...
19th June 2024
Helen Ivory to judge Gloucestershire poetry society competition
Helen Ivory will be judging Gloucestershire Poetry Society’s £200 open poetry competition. The deadline is 31 July. More details
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6th June 2024
Deadline nears for Wirral Poetry Festival competition
David J Costello be judging the Wirral Poetry Festival open poetry competition. First prize is £250, and the deadline is 31 May. More details
21st May 2024
Graham Mort to judge Frogmore Press prize
Graham Mort will be judging the Frogmore Press poetry prize. The prize is 250 guineas, and the deadline is 31 May. More details
9th April 2024
Lifeboat station runs poetry competition to mark RNLI's 200th anniversary
An open poetry competition, Carry Us Home, to celebrate 200 years of the RNLI is being run by Sheringham lifeboat station in Norfolk. The judge is Moniza Alvi, and the deadline is 5 April. Poems are i...
1st March 2024
Adele Ward to judge Green Fuses anthology competition
Adel Ward is the judge for VOLE books Winter/Spring competition. An anthology of the winning and short-listed poems titled Green Fuses will be published in April 2024 and all the poets included will r...
20th February 2024
Zaffar Kunial to judge Rialto nature and place competition
Zaffar Kunial will be judging The Rialto’s £1,000 Nature and Place poetry competition. The Rialto magazine is working in association with the RSPB, BirdLife International, Cambridge Conservation Initi...
4th February 2024
Kathryn Gray to judge Kent and Sussex poetry competition
Kathryn Gray will be judging the £1,000 Kent and Sussex open poetry competition. The deadline is 31 January. More details
21st January 2024
Discoveries in the sand? Bournemouth Writing Festival's competition theme
'Lines in the sand' is the theme of Bournemouth Writing Festival's competition. Organisers are looking for poems of up to 30 lines, excluding the title. There is also a flash fiction category. The jud...
21st January 2024
Denise Saul to judge international Wales Poetry Award
Denise Saul will be judging the £500 international Wales Poetry Award for a single poem. The deadline is 5 February. More details
15th January 2024
