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SUMMARY:Bournemouth Writing Prize
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 15th August 2026\nEntry Fee: £10 (for three poems or one short story)\nPrizes: First prize: £1\,000; second prize: £300; third prize: £200; published in Dorset Magazine\, read entry at the 2026 Bournemouth Writing Festival celebration event\nLine/Word Limit: Poetry – 30 lines; Short Story – 3\,000 words\nCategories: Poetry and Short Story Competitions\nJudges: Ed Wood (Short Story) and Matthew West (Poetry)\nCompetition Website: bournemouthwritingfestival.co.uk/2027-writing-competition\n\nThe Bournemouth Writing Prize 2027 is open for entries\, with a generous prize fund of £3\,000 for winners. Every year\, they support a charity and this year\, the competition will support Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots UK – an educational and environmental initiative that empowers young people to take positive action for people\, animals\, and the environment. \nThe Short Story Judge is Ed Wood\, Agent and Director of Fiction Development at The Blair Partnership\, representing authors in crime\, thriller\, gothic\, horror\, and general fiction. While the Poetry Judge is Matthew West\, the founding director of literature development agency\, ArtfulScribe\, with fifteen years’ experience of working with writers including curating festivals\, workshops\, publications\, and performance..
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/bournemouth-writing-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Niagara Falls Poetry Project 25th Anniversary Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23:59 on Saturday\, 15 August 2026\nEntry Fee: $5 (Canadian)\nPrizes: 1st Place $200\, 2nd Place $100\, 3rd Place $25; Spirit of Niagara Award $200 (Canadian); All entries eligible to be added to the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website & the anniversary anthology\nWord Limit: 100 lines maximum\nTheme/Genre: Niagara Falls – The cities and/or the waterfalls\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: niagarapoetry.ca/2026/04/09/rules\n\nThe Niagara Falls Poetry Project 25th Anniversary Poetry Competition is a juried competition open to poems in any form\, on the theme of Niagara Falls (the waterfalls and/or the two cities)\, with a special award for the poem that best exemplifies the “Spirit of Niagara Falls”.  \nPoems may be added to the website\, and published in an anthology of Niagara poetry at the curator’s discretion. Poems must be submitted in both a standard document editing format and a PDF file to poetrycontest@niagarapoetry.ca. Please see the competition site for the full terms and conditions.
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SUMMARY:Aesthetica Creative Writing Award - Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 August 2026\nEntry Fee: £12\nPrizes: Winner: £2\,500\, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and an Arvon writing course \nWord Limit: 40 lines\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website:  aestheticamagazine.com/creative-writing-award\n\nThe Aesthetica Creative Writing Award offers two prizes\, one for poetry and one for short fiction. Run by Aesthetica magazine\, there is a brilliant bundle of prizes available for the winner. These include the rather substantial £2\,500 cash prize\, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and a five-day course from Arvon. The winner of the poetry competition will also receive full membership to The Poetry Society\, a course from  the Poetry School and a one-year print subscription to Poetry London. \nThe judging panel is made up if editors and publishers from a wide range of organisations and publications and previous winners have become winners or made the shortlist of some of the biggest awards around including the TS Eliot Prize\, the National Poetry Competition and the Costa Book Award.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/aesthetica-creative-writing-award-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:Oxford Poetry Prize 2026
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 11:59 pm (UK time) on Monday 31st August 2026\nEntry Fee:  £10\nPrizes: 1st Place: £2\,000; 2nd Place: £1\,000; 3rd Place: £500\nPublication: All winning poets are offered publication in the print magazine Oxford Poetry.\nWord Limit: 60 lines\nJudge: Rowan Ricardo Phillips\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: oxfordpoetry.com/prize\n\nOxford 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.  \nThe 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.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/oxford-poetry-prize/
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