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Our current competition: New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2026 – Deadline: 30th Apr 2026. Prizes: 1st: £1,000; 4x Runners-up: £100.
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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 Ishion Hutchinson, who is the author of three poetry collections, is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, among others. He is Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in New York and recently published his essay collection, Fugitive Tilts, which New York Magazine described as ‘thrilling’.
There’s no specific time given for the close of entries on 31 December 2025, so don’t leave it until the last minute. The cost to enter is €16 per poem and you need to make the payment through PayPal.
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