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Our current competition: New Writers Novel Prize 2026 – Deadline: 31st October 2026. Top Prize: £1,000 + Lifetime Access to The Novel Factory (Version 3).
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Competition Details
The Moth Poetry Prize offers a whopping €6,000 prize, which is one of the biggest out there for a single poem. There are also three runners-up prizes of €1,000 and eight prizes of €250 for commended poems.
The competition is open to poems that have never been published, self-published, published online or broadcast. Unlike many poetry competitions, there is no line limit, and poems can be about any subject you like.
The judge for the competition is Diane Seuss, who is the author of six books of poetry. frank: sonnets was the winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Four-Legged Girl was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open received the Juniper Prize, and her sixth collection, Modern Poetry, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Seuss was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020, as well as the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.
The deadline is 23.59 on 31 December 2026, so don’t leave it until the last minute – get your entry in early and go enjoy the New Year’s Eve fun! The cost to enter is €17 per poem and you need to make the payment through PayPal. The shortlist is announced in March. The overall winner of €6,000 is announced at a special award ceremony online in April.
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