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SUMMARY:Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 2 June 2025\nEntry Fee: £5 for each poem\nPrizes: Winner: £300 (and named Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year(; Second place: £150; Third place: £75\nWord Limit: 60 lines maximum (excluding title and line breaks)\nJudges: Luigi Marchini (Chair\, SaveAs Writers Group)\, Kerry Rawlinson (Joint Winner\, Poet of the Year 2024) and Gary Michael Studley (Joint Winner\, Poet of the Year 2024)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: canterburyfestival.co.uk/poet-of-the-year-competition-2025\n\nThe Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2025 is open to national and international entries with a closing date of 2nd June 2025. With a maximum of 60 lines (excluding line breaks and title)\, there’s space to flex your poetic muscles. The judging panel (Luigi Marchini – Chair\, SaveAs Writers Group\, and Joint Winners – Poet of the Year 2024\, Kerry Rawlinson and Gary Michael Studley)\, will pick the winners and a longlist of entries will be published in the 2024 anthology. Check out the Canterbury Festival website for the full terms and conditions.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/canterbury-festival-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:New Writers Hopeful Haiku Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Tuesday 17th June 2025\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: 1st Place: £50 plus one free entry to the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025\, publication on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology\nWord Limit: three lines with a total of 17 syllables (excluding title)\nTheme: Hope\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nHow to Enter: Send your entry as an attachment (Word doc or Google doc please) to: competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Haiku Competition”.\n\nThis competition is free to enter\, but entrants must sign up to the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter (use THIS LINK to sign up if you haven’t already). \nOur monthly newsletter includes details of upcoming writing competitions (including our current Poetry Competition with a £1\,200 top prize!)\, the deadline for which is one month after that of the the Haiku Competition. The newsletter also includes tips and prompts and other news or offers we think might be of interest to writers. Note that we don’t share subscribers’ information with anyone else. \nYour hope-themed entry should adhere (at least roughly) to the rules of haiku poetry. Please give your entry a title that isn’t ‘Hope’ (as that would complicate the anonymous judging process!). \nEntry to this free competition assumes you accept the following terms and conditions: \n\nEntries must be the sole work of the entrant and no AI or similar software may have been used to write it.\nEntries must be unpublished\, either in print or online (including social media).\nEntrants must be aged 16 years or older at the time of entry.\nEntrants must be signed up to the New Writers Newsletter (also free). If you haven’t signed up yet you can do so using THIS LINK.\nEntries must be related to the theme of ‘Hope’ – though you can interpret that as loosely as you like.\nThe winner of competition will be paid a £50 prize and will receive one free entry to the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 (worth £10\, deadline 17th July 2025).\nResults of the competition will be published in the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter in January 2025 and the winning entry will be published on the website soon after and in the next New Writers Anthology.\nEntries should be sent as email attachments (Word doc or Google doc please) to competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Haiku Competition”.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/haiku-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:Hastings Book Festival Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 10pm on 30 June 2025\nEntry Fee: Single entry fee is £8.25; Two entries: £15; Three entries £21 (Max one entry for creative non-fiction)\nPrizes: 1st prize £250\, 2nd prize £100\, and 3rd prize £50\nWord Limit: Stories up to 2\,500 words; poems up to 40 lines; creative non-fiction up to 1\,000 words\nEligibility: Entrants to all competitions must be a minimum of 18 years old at time of entry\, but the competition is open to all\, including non-UK based writers.\nJudges: Short Story\, Jen Calleja (Poetry)\, Creative Non-Fiction\nCategory: James Young (Short Story)\, Poetry\, Sam Davey (Creative Non-Fiction)\nCompetition Website: hastingsbookfest.org/competitions\n\nThe annual Hastings Book Festival Competition launched on 31 March 2025 and closed on 30 June 2025. With prizes for short stories\, poems and creative non-fiction\, there’s something for everyone\, with extra options for those living in Sussex or near Hastings. \nThe categories and prizes are as follows: \nThe main Hastings Book Festival Writing competition is for writers of short story and poetry and can be on any theme. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world. \nThe Sussex Prize is for writers living in East and West Sussex and one will be chosen from the shortlisted entries of each of the categories for the main competition. \nThe Founder’s Prize is for emerging writers living within a 20-mile radius of Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. It is for works of creative non-fiction and the theme is ‘REFLECTIONS’. This will be limited to one entry per person with a maximum of 50 entries overall.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/hastings-book-festival-competition/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer's Society Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 30 June 2025\nEntry Fee: Free (up to three entries)\nPrizes: Publication in the Alzheimer’s Society magazine\, Dementia Together\nWord Limit: 30 lines maximum\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/publications-and-factsheets/dementia-together/poetry-competition-2025-dementia-together-magazine\n\nThe free-to-enter Alzheimer’s Society Poetry Competition is open to poems of up to 30 lines on the subject of dementia or people affected by the condition. It is open to residents of the UK\, the Republic of Ireland\, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands aged 16 or above at the time of entry. Poems must be your original work and not published elsewhere (unless in a personal capacity\, such as on your blog – ask us if you’re unsure).  \nEntry is by email or post and the winning poems will be published in the Alzheimer’s Society magazine\, Dementia Together. Check out the competition website for the full details.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/alzheimers-society-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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