New Writers Poetry Competition 2025

• Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on Thursday 17th July 2025
• Entry Fee: £10 per entry; (£18 for two entries, £26 for three entries, when submitted together)
• Prizes: 1st: £1,200; 2nd: £300; 3rd: £150; 4th to 6th: £50 each
• Publication: The six winning entries will be published on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology
• Word Limit: 42 lines (excluding title and line spaces)
• Head Judge: Katrina Moinet (Prize-winning writer of poetry & prose)
• Charity: 10% of all proceeds will be donated to charity (split between First Story and the Funzi & Bodo Trust)
• Category: Poetry Competitions
• Competition Website: newwriters.org.uk/poetry-competition

The third poetry competition run by NewWriters.org.uk, the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 is seeking fresh new poetry with no theme or style restrictions.

With our biggest-ever prize fund of £1,800 and the winners getting published on the website and in the next New Writers Anthology, this is a great competition for new and experienced poets to get their work out there.

We’re excited to welcome award-winning writer Katrina Moinet as the Head Judge for the competition. Katrina’s debut debut pamphlet Portrait of a Young Girl Falling was published by Hedgehog Press in 2024 and has since been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the year Award 2025.

Also, 10% of the proceeds from this competition will be donated to charity, split between two UK-registered charites: First Story (who do some brilliant work to help empower young people and give them a creative voice) and The Funzi and Bodo Trust (who run educational and other developmental projects in Kenya). So even if you don’t win, you’ll still be contributing to a fantastic cause.