Poetry Competitions
Here is a selection of poetry competitions in closing date order. Please email details (no attachments, thank you) of any competitions you are organising so we can promote them on NAWG's website.
When entering competitions do not forget to mention you found out about them on the NAWG website.
For Writing Competitions take a look at our Writing Competition Page
LEAF BOOKS POETRY
COMPETITION: Closes 31st July 2009. Leaf Books invites you to submit poems (max
35 lines) on any subject. All selected entries will be published in an
anthology. Entry fee: £3 per single submission; £10 for four submissions.
Prizes: Winner receives £200 plus a copy of the anthology plus complete
collection of pocket-sized Leaf Books. Runner-up receives complete collection of
pocket-sized Leaf Books and a copy of the anthology. Enter online or by post:
please see the competitions page on our website for entry form, paypal options
etc: http://www.leafbooks.co.uk/New/For%20Writers/CurrentCompetitions.html THE SALOPIAN POETRY
SOCIETY’S 33rd ANNUAL OPEN POETRY COMPETITION. Prizes: First £200,
Second £100, Third £50. Three Consolation prizes of £30 plus a one year
free subscription for the Society’s quarterly magazine “Salopeot” worth
£12 50 for the six winners. The adjudicator will be Hilary
Llewellyn-Williams. The Competition Secretary is Roger Hoult. Closing
date 31st August 2009. Lines limited please to 40 or less. Entry fee is
£2 per poem for members and £3 per poem for non-members or four poems
for £10. No restriction on number of entries submitted. Please send a
stamped self addressed envelope for extra entry forms to: Lilian Parker,
54 Coronation Drive, DONNINGTON, Telford, Shropshire TF2 8HY. Call for Writing and Art Entries.
The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition seeks entries of
Fiction, Poetry and
Artwork. Three winners will be awarded £500 each. All finalists will be
published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual, in stores December 2009.
Entry to the 2009 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is £10. This allows you
to submit up to five poems, two short
stories, or five images. Closing date to receive
Creative Works is 31st August 2009. For further details please visit
www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm.
If you would like to read more about the
successes of last year’s competition please visit
www.aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com.
The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Deadline: Last
posting on 29 November 2009. Judge: Andrew Motion. Prizes: Three
first-stage winners receive pamphlet publication and one second-stage winner
receives book publication. All four receive a share of £1,000 prize money and a
reading. Summary: The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 09/10
is to be judged by Andrew Motion, former poet laureate. Entrants are invited to
submit a manuscript of 24 poems. There are cash prizes, a winners' reading in
Sheffield and three prizes of pamphlet publication and one overall prize of book
publication. Entry fee is £25 (or £20 for North subscribers and Friends of the
Poetry Business). See
www.poetrybusiness.co.uk for more information and an entry form.
Monthly or On-going Competitions
Poetry Library. Find all the current UK poetry competitions at: www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/competitions
Regular
web-based competitions – poetry, flash fiction,
The McLellan Poetry Award. Criteria: For poems in all varieties of Scots and in English, no more than 40 lines. Judge: W. N. Herbert. Prizes: 1st £1000; 2nd £350; 3rd £150. Entry Fee: £3.50 per poem. Contacts: info@mclellanawards.co.uk; <www.arranart.com>; The Administrator, Corriegills Farm, Corriegills, Isle of Arran, KA27 8BL.
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