Latest Competitions:

1. The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry | Closing Date: 04-Jan-18
   Prize: £5,000 prize is donated by Carol Ann Duffy, funded from the annual honorarium the Poet Laureate traditiona…
2. Keats-Shelley Prize 2018 | Closing Date: 15-Jan-18
   A call for poems on the theme of Liberty: a celebration of Shelley?s Prometheus Unbound The Keats-Shelley Prize is an a…
3. Writing Armistice – The British Army?s Poetry Competition 2018 | Closing Date: 15-Jan-18
   Poems responding to the theme of Armistice. Poems should be in English and no more than 60 lines. Open Category: &po…
4. The Interpreter’s House Poetry Competition Open House 2018 | Closing Date: 31-Jan-18
   Prizes:First Prize £500, Second Prize £150,Third Prize £100. Poems must be submitted in English and sh…
5. The Poetry Business 2017/18 International Book & Pamphlet Competition | Closing Date: 01-Mar-18
   PRIZES: Publication by smith|doorstop Books; a share of £2,000 cash; a launch reading at The Wordsworth Trust; pub…

Competitions for Children:

1. Young Romantics Prize 2018 | Closing Date: 15-Jan-18
   A call to 21st century Young Romantic poets: to write on ?Liberty? Young Romantics is a prize established in 2015, for w…
2. Writing Armistice – The British Army?s Poetry Competition 2018 | Closing Date: 15-Jan-18
   Poems responding to the theme of Armistice. Poems should be in English and no more than 60 lines. Open Category: &po…
3. The Poetry Business 2017/18 New Poets Prize | Closing Date: 01-Mar-18
   A pamphlet competition for writers between the ages of 17 and 24 Prizes: Publication by smith|doorstop books following e…

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