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SUMMARY:South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition - Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.90 including 30p admin fee\nPrizes: First prize: £75\, Commended: £25\nWord Limit: 40 lines\nJudge: Gwyneth Box\, children’s author\, award-winning poet\, and workshop facilitator\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-2025\n\nThe South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition has four categories:\n– Fiction\n– Creative Non-fiction\n– Poetry\n– Flash \nThe winner of each category will receive a prize of £75. Each category will also pick one commended entry (and award a prize of £25). The winners and commended writers in each category will also have the opportunity to read their work at the literary festival on 20th September in Leamington Spa. \nThis would be a fantastic competition for any poet to win\, so get involved today.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/south-warwickshire-writing-comp-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:Red Shed Poetry Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.50 for the first entry\, £2 extra for each additional entry\nPrizes: 1st Place: £100\, 2nd: £50\, 3rd: £20. Wakefield postcode prize: £25\nWord Limit: 40 lines maximum\nCategory: Marion Oxley\nSole adjudicator: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: currockpress.com/theredshedpoetrycomp\n\nThe Red Shed Poetry Competition 2025 is run by Currock Press (and sponsored by Mocca Moocho Café\,  Wakefield) and is seeking poems of up to 40 lines from anyone aged 16 or older. With a modest entry fee and the option to enter up to five poems\, this could be a great competition to send your unpublished poems. \nCompetition judge Marion Oxley admires “poems that tell me something I don’t already know\, that take me to places I haven’t already been” and “poems that make me think\, challenge preconceptions\, that widen the readers’ horizons”. So get best your best work sent to the Red Shed Poetry Competition before the 28th March 2025.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/red-shed-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31st March 2025\nEntry Fee: €15\nPrizes: 1st prize €1\,000 plus a week at Circle of Misse in France; 2nd prize €500; 3rd prize €250\nWord Limit: No line limit\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nJudge: Kate Wakeling\nCompetition Website:  thecaterpillarmagazine.com\n\nThe Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025 is an annual prize for  unpublished poems written by adults for children aged 7–11.  \nThis year’s judge is Kate Wakeling whose work has been awarded the CLiPPA prize for children’s poetry and nominated for the Carnegie Medal and has been praised as ‘clever\, funny\, inspiring’ (The Sunday Times) and ‘both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful’ (Guardian). Her collections have variously been selected as Books of the Month in the Guardian\, The Scotsman and The Sunday Times. \nThe Prize is open to anyone (over 16)\, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. The poems can be on any subject.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/caterpillar-poetry-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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