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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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Oxford Poetry awards the annual Oxford Poetry Prize for a single poem in the English language. This year there are £3,500 in prizes. The guest judge is Rowan Ricardo Phillips: the author of Silver and Living Weapon, both published by Faber, he is poetry editor of The New Republic and editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. He is Presidential and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, and lives in New York and Barcelona.
The winner of the 2026 Oxford Poetry Prize will receive £2,000, the runner-up £1,000, and the second runner-up £500. The prize-winning poets will also be offered publication in the print magazine. This year’s prize closes for entries at midnight UTC on 31 August, 2026.
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