Competitions and Prizes: Words - Poetry
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Below is a list of organisations which offer competitions or prizes in poetry. Click on the title for more details.
See also Awards & Bursaries: Words - Poetry
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Ireland
Swift Satire Poetry Competition
Deadline: July
Award: Euro 1000
More info: Submissions are invited for a satirical poem, in the spirit and style of
Swift, on a topic of social/political interest. .
UK
Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition
Deadline: January
Award: £5000; 1000; 750
More info: Writers of any nationality providing that the writer and their work has not been published.
Aramby Publishing Competition
Deadline: rolling
Award: Publication + royalties
More info: Aims to promote the work of lesser known and new writers over the age of 16.
The Bridport Prize
Deadline: June
Award: £3000; £1000; £500
More info: Poems should be a maximum of 42 lines. The top 26 poems are published in the Bridport prize anthology. Open to all countries.
The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize
Deadline: see website
Award: see website
More info: Annual prize to the Poetry Review “new poet of the year” who has not yet published a book.
TS Eliot Prize
Deadline: August
Award: £10 000
More info: Prize launched to honour TS Eliot.
Iota Poetry Competition
Deadline: April
Award: £100
More info: Welcomes English non-UK entries
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
Deadline: September
Award: £2000
More info: Award made to the best first full collection of poetry as judged by a panel of readers.
The Keats-Shelley Prize
Deadline: see website
Award: £3000 (total)
More info: Rewards excellence in writing on Romantic themes.
The Petra Kenney Poetry Competition (UK/International
Deadline: see website
Award: £1000 (total)
More info: Poems must be original and unpublished and no more than 80 lines.
Kick Start Poets Open Poetry Competition
Deadline: see website
Award: see website
More info: Winners and runner ups invited to read their work at a public adjudication during the Salisbury Festival.
Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition
Deadline: April
Award: £1000
Further information: Publishes poems and short stories.
The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes
Deadline: October
Award: see website
More info: There are two sections: Single and Collection
Norwich Writers’ Circle Open Poetry Competition
Deadline: see website
Award: £120 + smaller prizes
More info: Incorporates the Open Poetry Prize; Mary Ingate Prize; and John Coleridge Prize.
Pitsbanger Poets National Poetry Competition
Deadline: February
Award: £250
More info: Poems must be in English and no longer than 40 lines.
The Plough Prize
Deadline: November
Award: £200
Further information: Has Open and Short Poem categories.
The Poetry Business – Book and Pamphlet Competition
Deadline: October
Award: Publication of book
More info: Entrants asked for small collections of 16 to 24 pages
Poetry London Competition
Deadline: February
Award: £1000
More info: Entries must be written in English, unpublished and original. The maximum length is 80 lines.
The Poetry Society National Poetry Competition
Deadline: October
Award: £5000 (+ smaller prizes)
More info: Entries must be written in English, unpublished and original. The maximum length is 80 lines.
Ragged Raven Press Annual Poetry Competition and Anthology
Deadline: October
Award: £250
Further information: Poems of any length and subject
Scottish International Open Poetry Competition
Deadline: November
Award: The MacDiarmid Trophy and £100
More info: Entries must be in English or Scots.
The Strokestown International Poetry Competition
Deadline: February
Award: £4000 (+ smaller prizes)
More info: Offers prize for International Poetry; Prize for a poem in Irish, Scots, Gaelic or Manx; and for a humorous political or topical satire in verse.
Suffolk Poetry Society – Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition
Deadline: May
Award: £200 (+ silver bowl)
More info: Offers prize for poets born, educated or resident in Suffolk.
Templar Poetry Competition
Deadline: May
Award: £500
More info: Open to previously published or unpublished writers with a substantial short body of work for publication as a pamphlet.
Christopher Tower Poetry Prize
Deadline: February
Award: £1500 (+ smaller prizes)
More info: Open to poets aged 16-18 years.
The UKA Open Theme Poetry Competition
Deadline: March
Award: £50
More info: see website.
Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
Deadline: August
Award: £500
More info: Poems must show imagination and skill and can be on any subject. 40 lines maximum.
Writers’ News
Deadline: see website
Award: see website
More info: Monthly short story and poetry competitions.
Writers’ Forum Poetry Competition
Deadline: 15th of each month
Award: £100
More info: Competition held in each issue of Writer’s Forum.
USA
Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition
Deadline: May
Award: $1000; 100
More info: Poems must not have been published in a nationally-distributed print publication.
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Deadline: see website
Award: see website
More info: see website
Boston Review
Deadline: June
Award: $1000 + publication
More info: English language poems only.
Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets
Deadline: May
Award: $1000 + publication
More info: Award for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press.
Colorado Review Prize for Poetry
Deadline: January
Award: $1 500
More info: An
annual contest for a book-length collection of poems, ranging from forty to one
hundred manuscript pages. Prize is $1,500, plus publication. Closing date:
mid-January. Sponsored by the University
of Colorado.
Comstock Review Annual Poetry Contest
Deadline: July
Award: $1 350
More info: Original, unpublished poems are sought. Maximum length: 40 lines. Entry fee:
$3 per poem. Prize pool: $1,350. Deadline: July 1. Selected poems will be
published.
Cross Way Publications
Poetry Contest
Deadline: June and December
Award: various
More info: Semi-annual contest is open to all Christian poets. All
forms of poetry are accepted. January through June and July through December.
Georgia Poetry Society
Contests
Deadline: see website
Award: various
More info: Offers a number of contests throughout the year, international
in scope, for short poems.
Idaho Prize for Poetry-
Deadline: May
Award: $1 000
More info: The Idaho Prize is
open to U.S.
authors only. It offers $1000 plus publication for a book-length poetry manuscript
of 48 pages or more. Entry fee: $25.
Juniper Prize for Poetry
Contest
Deadline: September
Award: see website
More info: Original manuscripts of at least fifty pages are sought by The
University of Massachusetts Press which will publish the winning collection of
original poetry. Entry fee: $20. Submissions accepted August1 through September
30.
Joan
Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes
Deadline: January
Award: see website
More info: Annual contest, co-sponsored by the 92nd Street Y
Unterberg Poetry Center and The Nation magazine, offered to poets who have not
yet published a book of poems. Entry fee: $8. .
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (USA)
Deadline: April
Award: $5000
More info: Open to poets who have not had a full length book published previously.
Ohio State University Press Poetry
Contest
Deadline: September
Award: $2 000
More info: A $2,000 poetry contest for book-length manuscripts (at
least 48 pages), sponsored by the Ohio State
University's
literary magazine, "The Journal". Reading fee: $25. Entries must
be postmarked during the month of September.
People Before Profits Poetry
Prize
Deadline: March
Award: $200
More info: An annual prize for an original poem on a "people before
profits" theme. $10 entry fee. $200 prize.
Pulsar Poetry Competition (International)
Deadline: February
Award: £100
More info: Entries must be no longer than 40 lines and unpublished.
Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for
Traditional Verse
Deadline: June
Award: $2 000
More info: Annual awards totaling $2,000 (including a $1,000 First
Prize) are made for poems in traditional verse forms. Any variations on
metrical, rhyming and/or formal poems are eligible. The judge's interpretation
of "traditional" is loose rather than strict. No restriction on
previous publication or previous awards. Minimum: 25 lines. Maximum: No limit.
Minimum entry fee: $5.
Salmon Poetry Publication Prize (Ireland)
Deadline: July
Award: Publication
More info: Biennial competition for a first collection of poetry from an Irish writer, or Irish resident
Dorothy Sargent
Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
Deadline: November
Award: $25 000 - 1 000
More info:- Poetry prizes from $1,000 to $25,000 will be
awarded for heartfelt lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. Deadline:
November 6. Entry fee: $10. Open to any writer under the age of 40.
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