Thank you for visiting NewWriters.org.uk. Our current competition is the New Writers Flash Fiction Competition (top prize £1,100, deadline: 31st Jan 2025).
- This competition has passed.
Southword Editor’s Poetry Award
30 September 2024
If you have found this page and our site useful, please consider making a small donation through our Ko-fi page. This will help us maintain these listings and continue allow us to offer regular free-to-enter competitions and free entries to our paid-entry competitions for those on low incomes.
Please consider signing up to our free monthly newsletter. Subscribers gain exclusive access to our free-to-enter competitions, entrance into free prize draws, information about the latest writing competitions and events from around the world and more.
The Southword Editor’s Poetry Award gives poets the chance to enter three poems for the very reasonable price of €24. The poet of the three poems judged the best will receive €1,000 plus publication in Southword. The entry fee also includes a complementary postage-free, one-year subscription to Southword, which is a great bonus.
The judge for the contest is the acclaimed Irish poet, Patrick Cotter, whose poems have been published far and wide, including in The London Review of Books, Poetry and Poetry Review. His third full-length collection, Sonic White Poise, was published by Dedalus, Dublin in 2021.
Details