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SUMMARY:Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Writing Awards
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 11.59pm on Monday 4 August 2025\nEntry Fee: Free\nPrizes: The winning entries are published in an illustrated book\, also available as an eBook.\nWord Limit: Varies\, see listing\nTheme: Comfort & Disturb\nCategory: Story\, Creative Non-fiction\, Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: mhfestival.com/2025/05/smhaf-2025-writing-competition-now-open\n\nThe Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival’s 2025 Writing Competition is open for entries.  \nThe theme for 2025 award is ‘Comfort & Disturb’. This can be interpreted in any way you choose – the limit is your imagination. For this year’s competition\, there are three categories and you can submit no more than one piece in each category:\n– FICTION: Short fiction pieces\, including short stories\, between 500 and 2000 words.\n– POETRY: Poems\, up to 40 lines.\n– CREATIVE NONFICTION: Creative writing with a factual basis\, between 500 and 2000 words. Examples can include letters\, diary entries\, autobiographical writing\, personal essays\, and creative journalism. \nEntrants must be over 16 years of age and entries must be typed and in English or Scots. Shortlisted entrants will be invited to read their entry at the Writing Awards ceremony at SMHAF. This will take place in Aberdeen on Wednesday 29 October. Category winners and the overall winner will be announced on the day.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/scottish-mental-health-arts-festival-writing-awards/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions,Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250701
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UID:1947-1751241600-1751327999@newwriters.org.uk
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250701
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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UID:9741-1751241600-1751327999@newwriters.org.uk
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250618
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250501
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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SUMMARY:Channel Islands LGBTQ+ Writing Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Wednesday 30 April 2025\nEntry Fee: Free\nEligibility: Entrants must be from the Channel Islands. You do not have to be LGBTQ+ yourself to participate.\nTheme: LGBTQ+ theme\, fiction or non-fiction and in any written literary form\nPrizes: Winner of each category will receive a £100 voucher\nWord Limit: 1\,000 words\nAge Categories: ‘Under 18s’ or ’18 and Over’\nCompetition Website:  CLICK HERE for Entry Details\n\nThe Channel Islands LGBTQ+ Writing Competition 2025 is run by Liberate\, a Guernsey-registered charity established in 2014 to include\, inform and support the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) communities across the Channel Islands.  \nAlthough the theme of the entries should be related to LGBTQ+ in some way\, entrants do not have to be LGBTQ+. Note that entrants must be from the Channel Islands (i.e. born in\, currently live in\, or have lived in Alderney\, Guernsey\, Herm\, Jersey or Sark).
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/channel-islands-lgbtq-writing-competition/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250401
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250329
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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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: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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250225
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SUMMARY:Elmbridge Literary Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 24th February 2025\nEntry Fee: Adults: £8\, Under 18s: free\nPrizes: Adults: 1st Place: £250; 2nd: £150; 3rd: £100; Under 18s: £10-£35 in book tokens\nWord Limit: Varies\nTheme: The River\nCategory: Short Story Competitions/Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website:  rcsherrifftrust.org.uk/elmbridge-literary-competition/\n\nThe Elmbridge Literary Competition 2024 is run in partnership with publisher Sampson Low\, who will publish the winning entries as a Chapbook. Open to short stories and poems\, there are various categories for under 18s and another for adults. Check out the competition terms and conditions for all the details. Please read the terms carefully as they vary depending on the type of submission and the age of the entrant. \nNote that there are different prizes and word/line limits for the different categories\, but the adults have a word limit of 1\,500 words for short story entries and 30 lines for poems. Note also that the Arial font must be used. There is the option to pay for Judges Feedback (fee £10.00) or a Full Critique (fee £25). \nGood luck!
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/elmbridge-literary-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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SUMMARY:Poetry Wales Award 2024/25
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on 17th February 2025\nEntry Fee: £5 per poem (or FREE for magazine subscribers and low-income households)\nPrizes: 1st Place: £500 plus a writing course or retreat; 2nd Place: £100; 3rd Place: £50; top three also win a One Year Subscription to Poetry Wales & publication in Poetry Wales\nWord Limit: 70 lines maximum (excluding title and line breaks)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nJudge: Jeremy Dixon (prize-winning poet\, workshop leader and maker of Artist’s Books)\nCompetition Website: poetrywales.co.uk/award\n\nSponsored by Literature Wales\, the Poetry Wales Award is a single-poem competition open to poets worldwide to share their new\, never-before-published work. The competition will be open from 17th December 2024 to 17th February 2025 and the entry fee is £5 per poem (maximum length 70 lines).  \nThe judge for the 2024/25 competition is Jeremy Dixon\, a prize-winning poet\, workshop leader and maker of Artist’s Books. He is the author of the pamphlet IN RETAIL (Arachne Press\, 2019). His first full collection A VOICE COMING FROM THEN (Arachne Press\, 2021) won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2022.  \nThe winner will receive £500 plus the choice of either a course at Literature Wales’ Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre or a week-long self-catered retreat at their dedicated writing retreat cottage\, Nant. Second place will get £100 and third will get £50\, and all three winners will be published in Poetry Wales and get a year’s subscription too. 10 highly commended poets will be invited to read at the Awarding Ceremony\, and have their poems published in an online booklet on poetrywales.co.uk.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/poetry-wales-award/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241231
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250101
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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SUMMARY:Arkbound Writing Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 December 2024\nEntry Fee: £8\nPrizes: Free copy of published book; cash prize TBD\nWord Limit: 4\,500\nJudge: Bridget Reaume\, Publishing Executive of Arkbound\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\, Non-fiction Competitions\nCompetition Website: arkbound.com/writing-competitions\n\nThe latest writing competition from Arkbound Publishing – officially entitled ‘Exploring Scottish Natural Landscapes\, Cultural Heritage\, and Environmental Preservation’ – invites UK writers and poets to participate in their latest competition which explores the historical significance and cultural emphasis on Scotland’s natural landscapes. Participants are encouraged to submit works of poetry and prose\, analysing and reflecting on Scottish landscape\, its hand in shaping national identity\, environmental preservation\, biodiversity\, urban pollution. They are seeking submissions exploring landscape memory\, intangible cultural heritage and/or urban & rural landscapes. See the competition site for the full details.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/arkbound-writing-competition/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241231
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SUMMARY:New Writers Winter 50-Word Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 11.59 (UK time) on Monday 30th December 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: 1st Place: £50 plus one free entry to the New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2025\, and publication on the NewWriters.org.uk website\nWord Limit: 50 words (excluding title)\nTheme: Winter\nCategory: Flash Fiction / 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 “Winter 50-Word 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 Flash Fiction Competition with a £1\,100 top prize!)\, along with tips and prompts and other news or offers we think might interest writers. We don’t share subscribers’ information with anyone else. \nYour winter-themed entry of up to 50 words can be prose or poetry. Please give your entry a title that isn’t ‘Winter’ (one year almost half the entries were called that and it complicated 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.\nEntries must be related to the theme of ‘Winter’ – 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 Flash Fiction Competition 2025 (worth £10\, deadline 31st January 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.\nEntries should be sent as email attachments (Word doc or Google doc please) to competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Winter 50-Word Competition”.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/winter-50-word/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241106
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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SUMMARY:Time After Time Rhyme and Recycle E-Waste Poetry Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 5th November 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: Cash prizes of £50 for those selected for the e-zine\nTheme/Genre: To engage and inspire young people to learn about e-waste through poetry\, song lyrics\, spoken word\, visual or multi-media.\nEligibility: This competition is open to people aged 18-24\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: hubbub.org.uk/time-after-time\n\nRHYME AND RECYCLE: AN E-WASTE POETRY CHALLENGE \nTime After Time is a campaign from Virgin Media O2 and environmental charity Hubbub that aims to lead the charge in action on e-waste. This competition is for young people with an interest in creative writing to think about ways to view the e-waste problem in a new light. \nYour submission should fit under one of the following themes and engage and inspire young people to learn about e-waste: \n\nManufacturing of Tech – reflecting on the global resources and labour it takes to make tech and how easily we forget about these factors when it comes to looking after our electricals.\nConsumerism – How many unused electricals do you have in your home? The average household has 21! Consider our relationship with different types of tech and the value we give to different items.\nExtending the Lifespan of a Product – Recycling\, selling\, donating or binning (👎) deciding what to do with our tech isn’t a decision many of us spend time on – how can we highlight this through poetry.\nLiving in the technology era – Many people see their phone as one of their most important items\, it goes with us everywhere and connects us to everyone – until a new model comes along. What does this mean about its value?\n\nCheck out the competition site for more details and good luck.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/time-after-time-poetry-challenge/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241101
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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SUMMARY:Broken Sleep Books Poetry Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31st October 2024\nEntry Fee: £10 (standard entry) or £5 (low socioeconomic entry)\nPrizes: There are two prizes: 1 x full-length collection contract with Broken Sleep Books and £250. 1 x mentorship towards a full collection with Broken Sleep Books and £250 (low socioeconomic status entrants only)\nWord Limit: Minimum of 60 pages\, maximum of 90 pages.\nJudges: Penelope Shuttle (Lyonesse) & Andre Bagoo (Narcissus)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-books-poetry-competition\n\nThe Broken Sleep Books Poetry Competition 2024 is a fantastic opportunity for poets to get their full-length collection of poems into the world. With top-class judges in the form of Penelope Shuttle and Andre Bagoo and discounted entry fees for those of low socioeconomic status\, if you have at least 60 pages of poems\, this could be the competition for you. The winner will get a publishing contract for their poetry collection and £250. While the winning poet with a low socioeconomic status will receive mentorship towards a full collection with Broken Sleep Books and £250. \nNote that Broken Sleep Books have published numerous exceptional poetry collections\, including the debut collection of the winner of the New Writers Poetry Competition 2023 (and judge of the 2024 competition)\, Jordan Hamel.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/broken-sleep-books-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241101
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
CREATED:20240718T114103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240718T115603Z
UID:6280-1730332800-1730419199@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Solstice Nature Prize For Young Writers
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 October 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: 1st: £100 plus publication in the Solstice Anthology (see notes for other prizes)\nWord Limit: 500 words (stories or blogs) or 40 lines (poems)\nEligibility: Entrants must be UK residents in one of the following age categories: 7-11* years\, 12-14* years\, 15-17* years and 18-25 years (*entrants will need permission to enter)\nJudge: Gill Lewis (multi-award-winning and best-selling author)\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\, Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: writingeastmidlands.co.uk/young-writers-groups/solstice-writing-prize\n\nThe Solstice Nature Prize for Young Writers is delivered by Writing East Midlands\, with great thanks to Arts Council England and the Amazon Literary Partnership for funding the 2024 competition. It is open to UK residents who fit into one of the four age categories:\n(7-11 years) – you will need permission to enter.\n(12-14 years) – you will need permission to enter.\n(15-17 years) – you will need permission to enter.\n(18-25 years) – you will not need permission to enter. \nThere are some brilliant prizes up for grabs. First-place winners in each age category will receive £100 and have their work published in the 2024 Solstice Anthology. Five Highly Commended runners up per age category will receive goody bags and also have their work published in the online anthology. There are also regional prizes for the best pieces in each age group for young writers living in the East Midlands. \nThe head judge is the multi-award-winning and best-selling author of novels including Sky Hawk\, Sky Dancer\, White Dolphin\, and A Story Like the Wind. \nMoon Flight\, her latest book\, which was launched in March 2023 was recently Waterstones’ Book of the Month. Find out more about Gill and her wonderful stories about the natural world here: Gill Lewis \nSo if you like nature and writing\, this is the perfect competition for you (or your kids!).
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/solstice-prize-young-writers/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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UID:2744-1730332800-1730419199@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Trio International Poetry Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31st October 2024\nEntry Fee: £5 for the first poem\, £8 for two poems\, £10 for three poems\nPrizes: First Prize: £1\,000; 2nd: £300; 3rd: £100; plus four commended poems: £25 each\nWord Limit: 40 lines (excluding title)\nJudge: Angela Graham\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: triouganda.org/poetry-competition\n\nThe Trio International Poetry Competition is organised by (and raises money for) Trio Uganda\, a volunteer-led micro charity that runs various development projects in Uganda. \nThe competition judge is the award-winning poet\, film maker and screenwriter Angela Graham. All entry fees will be used to equip pupils with books and scholastic materials in the community of Agaria Island in Uganda which is building its first school\, using ecological bricks.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/trio-international-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240822
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UID:6560-1724198400-1724284799@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 21st August 2024\nEntry Fee: EUR €5 / GBP £4 / USD $5 per poem\nPrizes: €1\,500 in prizes (€250 top prize in each category. Cash prizes for 1st\, 2nd and 3rd placed poems)\nLine Limit: None\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: francesbrowneliteraryfestival.com/poetry-competition\n\nThe 2024 Frances Browne Multilingugal Poetry Competition is open for entries. The deadline for entries is midnight on 21st August 2024. \nThe successful Frances Browne International Poetry Competition\, pioneered by Celine Mc Glynn and Dr. Pauline Holland\, has been an established event since 2008. The competition is unique in its tri-lingual approach\, welcoming poets writing in the English\, Irish and Ulster-Scots languages. \nPoetry Categories and Prizes \nPoems are welcomes in the following categories from poets all over the globe. \nEnglish Language – First Prize – €250\, Second Prize – €100\, Third Prize\, €50\nIrish Language – First Prize – €250\, Second Prize – €100\, Third Prize\, €50\nUlster Scots Language – First Prize – €250\, Second Prize – €100\, Third Prize\, €50\nThe Eilish McBride Award – English Language – Local* – Sponsored by Edel MacBride – Winning Poem €100\nIrish Language – Local* – Winning Poem €100\nUlster Scots Language – Local* – Winning Poem €100 \n*see competition site for definition of local
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/frances-browne-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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UID:5832-1722384000-1722470399@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:New Writers Poetry Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on Wednesday 31st July 2024\nEntry Fee: £10 per entry; (£18 for two entries\, £26 for three entries\, £34 for four entries\, or £42 for five entries) *Multiple entries must be submitted together to receive the discount\nPrizes: 1st Place: £1\,000; 2nd Place: £300; 3rd Place: £200; all winning poems will be published on the NewWriters.org.uk site and in a future New Writers Anthology\nWord Limit: 42 lines (excluding title and line spaces)\nHead Judge: Jordan Hamel (Poet & Performer)\nCharity:  £1 from each entry will be donated to First Story (England’s leading creative writing charity for young people)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: newwriters.org.uk/poetry-competition\n\nThe second poetry competition run by NewWriters.org.uk\, the New Writers Poetry Competition 2024 is seeking fresh new poetry with no theme or style restrictions. With a prize fund of £1\,500 and the winners getting published on the website and in a future New Writers Anthology\, this is a great competition for new and experienced poets to get their work out there. \nWe’re very pleased to welcome talented poet and performer Jordan Hamel as the Head Judge for the competition. Jordan’s debut poetry collection is being publishing in the UK on the 31st July 2024 (the same day as the competition’s deadline) and Jordan won our 2023 Poetry Competition with his excellent poem\, How to cheat death in a nightclub bathroom. \nAlso\, £1.00 from each entry will be donated to creative writing charity\, First Story (who do some brilliant work to help empower young people and give them a creative voice). So even if you don’t win\, you’ll still be contributing to a fantastic cause.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/poetry-2024/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240601
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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UID:5404-1717113600-1717199999@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Genesis Emerging Writers Programme
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 May 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: Mentorship\, seminars\, peer support and bursaries to ten emerging writers working in poetry\, fiction and non-fiction.\nWord Limit: 1200 words or 5 pages of poems\nEligibility: Applications are welcomed from emerging writers from all backgrounds\, of any or no faith\, aged over 18 years of age and living in the UK with no more than three years’ experience of being published\, who feel they would benefit from the support and insight of a more established writer.\nCategories: Poetry\, Fiction and Non-fiction\nWebsite: jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/programmes/genesis-emerging-writers-programme\n\nThe Genesis Emerging Writers Programme offers mentorship\, seminars\, peer support and bursaries to ten emerging writers working in poetry\, fiction and non-fiction. The programme is open to emerging writers over 18 years of age and living in the UK with no more than three years’ experience of being published\, who feel they would benefit from the support and insight of a more established writer. \nApplicants should be working\, or planning to work\, on a specific project\, with the aim of publication\, and should be committed to participating fully in all sessions offered by the programme. The Programme runs from 1 June 2024 to 1 April 2025. Grants will be made to successful applications on receipt of bank details. The programme of mentorship is designed to take place online and/or in person\, depending on the preference of the selected writer and their mentor. Group sessions are designed to take place online so that the programme is accessible to all. \nApplications close at 11.59pm time on 31 May 2024. \n To apply\, you must fully complete the online form which asks for:\n– Your personal/contact details;\n– A little about you and your writing project\, including a personal statement\, why you are applying for the programme\, a very brief synopsis of the project you intend to work on throughout the Programme and the genre of your project.\n– An uploaded sample of your writing\, up to 1200 words or 5 pages of poetry\, from the same project or in the same genre. Please make sure your name is not on the document as your writing sample will be judged anonymously. Please check headers/footers etc.\n– An uploaded budget for up to £1\,500 of funding to support your writing in the project you intend to work on throughout the Programme. Please note we will not approve budget requests for the purchase of laptops\, tablets\, mobile telephones or other technological equipment. Click here to view an example budget.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/genesis-emerging-writers-programme/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Novel Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240520
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UID:1503-1716076800-1716163199@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Creative Future Writers’ Award 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on Sunday 19 May 2024\nEntry Fee: Free (or pay what you can)\nEligibility: The competition is only open to underrepresented writers in the UK who are over 18\nTheme: The theme for the 2024 Awards is ‘Reveal’\nPrizes: £23K in cash and professional development (see the Creative Future website for full details)\nWord Limit: Poetry: 50 lines\, Fiction: 2\,000 words\, Creative Non-Fiction: 2\,000 words\nJudges: Wayne Holloway-Smith\, Nina Mingya Powles\nCategories: Short Story\, Poetry\, Creative Non-Fiction\nCompetition Website:  creativefuture.org.uk/for-writers/creative-future-writers-award/how-to-enter\n\nThe Creative Future Writers’ Award is a brilliant writing competition that is open to underrepresented* writers of fiction\, poetry or creative non-fiction. \nUnlike many writing competitions that simply offer a cash prize and publication\, the Creative Future Award has amassed a brilliant package of prizes that includes various writing courses\, literary memberships\, manuscript assessments and coaching from a wide range of highly rated organisations as well as a bit of cash and publication in their anthology too. The full details of the prizes on offer can be found at the Creative Future site. \nSo if you are an underrepresented writer in the UK and you want the opportunity to enhance your writing skills and increase exposure to your work\, this could be the competition for you. \n*The Creative Future Writers’ Award is open to writers who are underrepresented. This includes people who feel their opportunities are limited as a result of: \n\nmental health issues\nBlack\, Asian\, traveller\, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds\nLGBTQIA+\nphysical disability\nlong-term limiting illness\nsensory impairment\nlearning disability/dyslexia/dyspraxia\nneurodivergent/ASD/ADHD\nworking class background\nsubstance misuse issue\nsurvivors
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/creative-future-writers-award/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240319
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UID:4644-1710720000-1710806399@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Poetry Society Free Verse Prize 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 11.59pm on 18 March 2024\nEntry Fee: £5 for first poem\, £4 for subsequent poems\nPrizes: First Prize: £500 plus publication\nLine Limit: 48 lines (including title & blank lines / stanza breaks)\nJudge: Chrissy Williams (poet\, editor & comic book writer)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website:  thepoetrysociety.submittable.com/submit\n\nRun by The Poetry Society\, The Free Verse Prize is a poetry competition in support of Free Verse: the Poetry Book and Magazine Fair. \nFree Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair celebrates the vitality of poetry in the UK – it’s a day of conversation and shopping\, an unrivalled opportunity to browse the very best in contemporary poetry and to meet publishers\, literary organisations\, poets and poetry readers. This year’s Free Verse takes place on Saturday 20 April at St Columba\, Pont St\, London. \nThe winner lands a tidy prize of £500 plus publication in The Poetry Society’s ‘Poetry News’ magazine and the programme for the Free Verse Fair.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/free-verse-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240301
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UID:3852-1709164800-1709251199@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Heroica Poetry Prize
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 29 February 2024\nEntry Fee:  £2 per poem\, £5 for 3 or £10 for unlimited entries. Entry is free for HEROIClub members.\nPrizes: 1st Place: £125; 2nd Place: £50; 3rd Place: £25\nEligibility: Open to women and non-binary poets\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: heroica.co/poetry-prize\n\nOpen to women and non-binary poets\, the Heroica Poetry Prize has a £125 top prize and the winners\, along with all long-listed poems\, will be published (in print) in the first Heroica Poetry Anthology. There is a very reasonable entry fee\, but entry is free to HEROIClub members (details here) so that’s worth checking out if you would like to join an established and supportive writing community.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/heroica-poetry-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240201
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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UID:3970-1706659200-1706745599@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Teignmouth Poetry Festival Poetry Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 January 2024\nEntry Fee: £5.50 for first poem\, £3.50 for each additional poem\nPrizes:Open Competition: 1st Place: £600\, 2nd Place: £300\, 3rd Place: £200; Devon Resident: !st Place: £200\, 2nd Place: £100\, 3rd Place: £50\nLine Limit: 40 lines\nJudge: Malika Booker (for the Open Competition); ​Graeme Ryan (for Devon Poets)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: poetryteignmouth.com/competition-2024\n\nThe Teignmouth Poetry Festival Poetry Competition 2024 is open to entries and there are two options: the Open Competition\, for entrants from anywhere in the world\, and the Graham Burchell Award for Devon Poets for those with Devon postcodes. The Open Competition has a more generous prize\, but then the pool of poets will also be much larger so it will be tougher to win. Note that in addition to the top three prizes mentioned for each competition\, an additional £25 will be awarded to the top three commended poems.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/teignmouth-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240201
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UID:3875-1706659200-1706745599@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Walk With Words Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23 January 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: 1st Place: £300; 2nd Place: £200; 3rd Place: £100\nLine Limit: 250 words (for written entries)\nTheme: Memories\nCategory: Various\nCompetition Website: walkwithwords.co.uk\n\nThe Walk With Words Competition links in with the Walk with Words interactive walking route that connects Colchester City Centre\, the University of Essex\, and Greenstead. Arranged on 16 posts\, a QR code geo-locates content\, offering walkers a diverse mix of materials inspired by the journey – contributed by the community and curated from existing pieces. \nEntrants to this competition are invited to take inspiration from any moment on walk or the surrounding area to create content under the 2024 theme of ‘Memories’. The route can be found on the map below\, with the 16 locations highlighted. Submissions could be in the form of\, but are not limited to\, poems\, riddles\, local advice\, anecdotes\, short stories\, photography with captions\, short films or spoken word.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/walk-with-words-competition/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions,Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240102
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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UID:3741-1704067200-1704153599@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Letter Review Prize for Reprints
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 1st January 2024\nEntry Fee: $20\nPrizes: Three Winners share in the $1\,000 USD total prize pool\nWord Limit: First 5\,000 words of your manuscript or up to 70 lines of poetry\nCategory: Various\nCompetition Website: letterreview.com/information/\n\nThe Letter Review Prize is a regular writing competition split into the following categories: Short Fiction\, Poetry\, Nonfiction\, Published Books and Reprints. It offers cash prizes and publication to the winners. You can access previous winners on the Letter Review site to give you an idea of what floats their boat. \nThe Reprints Prize is open to  Stories\, Poems\, and works of Nonfiction which have been previously published\, and are not currently available to read online. Be sure to refer to the full entry guidelines for further details. Entrants should submit the first 5\,000 words of their manuscript\, whether it be prose or poetry.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/letter-review-prize-reprints/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Novel Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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UID:3480-1703030400-1703116799@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Prole Laureate Poetry Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 20 December 2023\nEntry Fee: £3 for one entry\, £2 for each any subsequent entries\nPrizes: 1st Place: £200; 2x runners-up prizes of £50 each; winners and runners-up will be published in Prole issue 35\nLine Limit: No limit\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: prolebooks.co.uk/competitions\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Prole Laureate Poetry Competition for 2024 is now open for entries. With no set theme and no limit to the number of lines in your poem\, this is a great opportunity for those poets who don’t enjoy trying to squeeze their creations into a mere 40 lines.  \nAs the organisers say\, “We are\, as ever\, open regarding length\, style and content. We are looking for poetry that epitomises the editorial values of Prole: to make writing engaging\, accessible\, challenging and entertaining. Quality is all.” \nAs poetry competitions go\, the entry fee is very fair and with the winner and the runners-up having their entries published in the next issue of Prole\, this is a fantastic chance to get your work out into the world. The poetry competition is being judged by Maurice Devitt\, whose debut poetry collection ‘Growing Up in Colour’ was published by Doire Press in 2018\, and whose second collection ‘Some of These Stories are True’ came out in May 2023.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/prole-laureate-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231205
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UID:3502-1701648000-1701734399@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2023
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on 4 December 2023\nEntry Fee: £10 per poem (for up to three poems)\nPrizes: 1st Place: £2\,000; 2nd Place: £500; 3rd Place: £250; Unpublished Poetry Prize: £250. The four winners\, plus sixteen additional finalists will have their poems published in the March 2024 issue of Mslexia.\nLine Limit: No limit\nJudge: Fiona Benson\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: mslexia.co.uk/competitions/single-poem-poetry/womens-poetry-competition-2023\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition is a very highly regarded poetry contest for people who self-identify as a woman. As well as this competition for single poems (though you can enter up to three for the £10 fee)\, Mslexia are also running a Women’s Pamphlet Competition 2023 (with the same deadline). \nThere is no line limit and the top prize of £2\,000 for the single poem competition is well worth aiming for. As are the other cash prizes and the chance to be published in the March 2024 issue of Mslexia. \nBe sure to check the rules and eligibility criteria on the website\, and good luck!
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/mslexia-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231201
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SUMMARY:Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2023
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 30 November 2023\nEntry Fee: £4 for first entry\, £10 for 3 poems & £2 per poem thereafter\nPrizes: Winner: £1\,000; 2nd Prize: £300; 3rd Prize: £200 (Norfolk Prize: £100)\nWord Limit: 40 lines (excluding the title)\nJudge: Martin Figura\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website:  cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-competition\n\nThe Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2023 is open to poems of up to 40 lines (excluding title) written in English. As well as the prizes for the top three poems\, there is an additional prize for the best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident not winning another prize. There are also five Commended Prizes of £50. \nThe competition judge is the award-winning poet Martin Figura\, collection and show Whistle were shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and won the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show.  \nNote that poems should be sent as PDF documents\, with each poem on a separate page. Check the Competition Rules for the full details. And good luck!
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/cafe-writers-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231016
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
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UID:2897-1697328000-1697414399@newwriters.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Prose Poem Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 15 October 2023\nEntry Fee: 1 poem £3\, 2 poems £4.50\, 3 poems £6\nPrizes: First place: £100; Second place: £50; Third place: £25; Honourable mention: £10 (all plus publication)\nWord Limit: 500 words\nJudge: Ingrid Jendrzejewski\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: theprosepoem.com/submit/\n\nThis is one of the few competitions dedicated to prose poetry (if you’re not 100% sure what prose poetry is\, check out this article on understanding prose poetry). The competition is being judged by UK shortform writer Ingrid Jendrzejewski. The longlist will be announced by 30 October 2023\, the shortlist will be announced by 15 November 2023 and the winners will be announced by 30 November 2023.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/the-prose-poem-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230902
DTSTAMP:20260531T121806
CREATED:20230126T125535Z
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SUMMARY:Manchester Poetry Prize 2023
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 5 pm (UK time) on 1 September 2023\nEntry Fee: £18\nPrizes: Winner: £10\,000 \nWord Limit: A portfolio of 3 to 5 poems with a combined maximum length of 120 lines\nChair of Judges: Malika Booker\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website:  mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/poetry-prize\n\nRun by Manchester Metropolitan University and established by former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy back in 2008\, The Manchester Writing Competition (incorporating the Poetry Prize and the Fiction Prize) is one of the most generous you will find anywhere for unpublished writers. Let’s cut right to the chase: winning £10\,000 would be a good day at the office for most established authors\, but for an unpublished writer with aspirations to make it in the literary world\, it could certainly open doors. \nFor the Poetry Prize\, entries should consist of a portfolio of 3 to 5 poems with a combined maximum length of 120 lines and can be on any theme or subject. The chair of the judges for the Fiction Prize is poet and artist\, Malika Booker.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/manchester-poetry-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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