JULY 2009
Essex Poetry Festival 9th Open Poetry Competition
Closing Date: 30-Jul-09
Details:
For poems of up to 40 lines. Adjudicator:
Jo Bell. First prize £500.
Entry Fee: £3
per poem or £10 for 5 poems
Contact:
Essex Poetry Festival Competition, 15 Seeleys, Old Harlow, Essex CM17
0AD
Website:
www.essex-poetry-festival.co.uk/compb.html
Wells Festival of Literature Poetry and Short Story Competitions 2009
Closing Date: 31-Jul-09
Details:
First prize £500. Poetry category is for
poems of up to 40 lines on any subject, showing imagination, skill and
originality. Short stories should be between 1800 and 2000 words.
Entry Fee: £4
per poem or short story
Contact: Poetry
Competition, 2 The Gardens, Sadler Street, Wells, Somerset BA5 2SF
Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2009 (formerly Jerwood Aldeburgh First
Collection Prize)
Closing Date: 31-Jul-09
Details:
Any first collection of at least 40 pages
published in the
United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland between 1st August 2008 and
31st July 2009 is eligible. Entrants should submit three bound or proof
copies. Judges: Michael Laskey, David Constantine, Mimi Khalvati.
£3,000 plus a fee-paying invitation to read at the Aldeburgh Poetry
Festival 2010 and a week's paid 'protected' writing time in Suffolk.
Entry Fee: £0
Contact:
Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, The Cut, 9 New Cut, Halesworth,
Suffolk IP19 8BY
Telephone: 01986 835 950
Email: info@thepoetrytrust.org
Website: www.thepoetrytrust.org
AUGUST
2009
Havant Literary Festival Poetry Competition
Closing Date: 01-Aug-09
Details:
Prizes: £250, £100, £50
Details: Poems up to 40 lines on the theme of 'Water'.
Judge: Anne Stewart.
Entry Fee: £3
per poem.
Contact:
Havant Literary Festival Poetry Competition, The Nineveh Gallery, 11 The
Pallant, Havant, Hampshire PO9 1BE
Email: hlf2008havant@googlemail.com
Website: www.havantlitfest.hampshire.org.uk
Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
Closing Date: 31-Aug-09
Details:
For five poems of up to 40 lines. Also
includes categories of short story and artwork. First prize of £500.
Entry Fee: £10
for five poems
Contact:
Creative Works Competition, Aesthetica, PO Box 371, York YO23 1WL
Telephone: 01904 527560
Email: info@aestheticamagazine.com
Website: www.aestheticamagazine.com
Salopian Poetry Society's Open Poetry Competition 2009
Closing Date: 31-Aug-09
Details:
For poems of up to 40 lines. Adjudicator:
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams. Prizes to the value of £500.
Entry Fee: £3
per poem or four poems for £10
Contact:
Roger Hoult, 5 Squires Close, Madeley, Telford, Shropshire TF7 5RU
Telephone: 01952 587 487
Website: www.thesalopianpoetrysociety.webeden.co.uk
SEPTEMBER
2009
Chroma International Queer Writing Competition 2009
Closing Date: 07-Sep-09
Details:
Short story and poetry competition for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered writersStories up to 5000
words. Poems up to 50 lines. Velvet Flash Fiction entries, no longer
than 150 words. Poetry Judge: Cherry Smyth. First prize £300
Entry Fee: £5
per poem or story
Contact:
Chroma Writing Competition, PO Box 44655, London N16 0WQ
Website: www.chromajournal.co.uk
Poetry Society Stanza Competition
Closing Date: 11-Sep-09
Details:
Theme: 'Villains'. Exclusive to Poetry
Society members who are also members of a Poetry Society Stanza. For
poems of up to 30 lines.
First prize: a free Poetry Prescription (your poetry appraised by an
expert) or 1 year's free Poetry Society membership (or equivalent); plus
publication in Poetry News, the Poetry Society's membership magazine,
and on the Poetry Society website.
Entry Fee: £0
Contact:
Contact: Membership Manager, The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street,
London WC2H 9BX
Website: www.poetrysociety.org.uk
Tel: 020 7420 9881
Email: membership@poetrysociety.org.uk
Basil Bunting Poetry Award
Closing Date: 30-Sep-09
Details:
For poems of up to 42 lines. First prize
£1000. Judges: Sean O'Brien, Linda France and Paul Batchelor. The
winners' work will be read by Neil Astley.
Entry Fee: £7
for the first poem and £3 for further poems
Contact: Website: www.basilbuntingaward.co.uk
OCTOBER
2009
Naional Poetry Competition 2009
Closing Date: 31-Oct-09
Details:
Judges: Daljit Nagra, Ruth Padel and Neil
Rollinson. First prize: £5000.
Entry Fee: £5
for the first entry, £3 for subsequent entries
Contact:
Competition Organiser, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX
Website:
www.poetrysociety.or.uk
NOVEMBER
2009
Rubies in the Darkness Annual Poetry Competition 2009
Closing Date: 01-Nov-09
Details:
Competition judge is poet and editor of Rubies
in the Darkness, Peter Geoffrey Paul Thompson. Publication in the
magazine and book prizes for top three poems.
Entry Fee: £3
per poem, 2 poems for £5, 4 poems for £9, 6 poems for £10
Contact: 41
Grantham Road, Manor Park, London E12 5LZ
Plough Prize 2009
Closing Date: 30-Nov-09
Details:
Judge: Alison Brackenbury. Categories:
Short poem (up to 10 lines), Open (up to 40 lines), Poem for Children
(suitable for 5-11yrs approx. - any length). Prizes: 1st £500, 2nd £200,
3rd £100 in Short and Open categories; £100 1st prize Children's Poem
category. Special prize for best entry by
Devon resident (no additional entry fee).
Entry Fee: £4
per poem, four poems £14, thereafter £3.50.
Contact:
SAE
to: Poetry Competition, The Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore Street,
Torrington EX38 8HQ
Tel.
01805 624624; email: admin@theploughprize.co.uk
Website: www.theploughprize.co.uk
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