Poetry Competitions

arranged in closing date order

PrinterPix 'Sunshine' Poetry Competition
Closing date: 24th May 2013.
Prizes: When you enter the Printerpix poetry competition, you stand a chance of winning an Amazon voucher worth $100! And a 20"x 16" canvas!
Entry fee: No entry fee
Theme: Sunshine. Anything based on 'Sunshine' is acceptable as long as you can create some warmth and comfort to all those who read your poem. It can be written in any style, in no more than 45 lines and must be 100% original.
Open to all those living in USA/UK/Europe
For full entry rules and conditions see website. printerpix.co.uk/Sunshine-Poetry-Competition

The 7th international Welsh Poetry Competition, 2013
Closing date: Sunday 26th May 2013.
Prizes: 1st Prize - £400, 2nd Prize - £200 and 3rd Prize - £100, plus 17 runners-up will be published on our web site.
Entry fee: £4 per poem.
This year the competition will be judged by Welsh writer and poet, Eloise Williams.
To enter you just need to compose a poem, in English, of less than 50 lines.
Download an entry form.
For full entry rules and conditions see website. welshpoetry.co.uk/

David Burland Poetry Prize 2013
Closing date: 31st May, 2013
Prizes: for each language, £200,£70, £30.
Entry fee: £8 for up to 2, £3 each extra
Poems, up to 40 lines, in English or French
Email: annaburland@btconnect.com.
For full entry rules and conditions see website. davidburlandpoetryprize.com

Wigtown Poetry Competition
For poems, up to 40 lines in English, Scots or Scots/Irish Gaelic
Closing date: 31st May, 2013
Prizes: £2,000, £400; Gaelic Prize £250
Scots Prize £250; 8 £25 runners-up.
Entry fee: £7, £19 for three, £24 for four.
mail@wigtownbookfestival.com
For more details visit website. wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp

Winning Writers Sports Poetry & Prose Contest.
For one or two poems, short stories or essays or other prose, on a sporting theme, all with a 6,000-word maximum. International entries welcome.
Closing date: 31st May, 2013.
Prizes: for poetry or prose, $1,000, five $100 Honorable Mentions
Entry fee: $15
USA; Email: adam@winningwriters.com
For more information visit website. winningwriters.com/sports

Thynks 2013 Open Poetry Competition
Closing:- 31st May, 2013
Prizes: 1st - £100 plus publication. Runners-up - Publication
Entry Fee: £3.
Email:- thynkspublications@yahoo.co.uk
For full entry rules and conditions see website. thynkspublications.co.uk/competitions

Yeovil Literary Prize 2013 - Poetry
Closing date: 31st May 2013.
Prizes - 1st = £500 : 2nd = £200 : 3rd = £100
Entry fee - £6 for one poem, £9 for two, £11 for three
A poem with a maximum of 40 lines.
Judge Neil Astley, Editor and MD Bloodaxe Books
Full details, rules and entry instructions can be found on the website. yeovilprize.co.uk

The Bridport Prize 2013 - Short Stories, Poetry and Flash Fiction
Closing date: 31 May 2013.
Entry fee: £6 per flash fiction, £7 per poem, £8 per short story.
For short stories, poetry and flash fiction.
Prizes: £5,000, £1,000, £500 and ten £50 highly commendeds, for short stories and poetry; £1 ,000, £500, £250, three £25 highly commendeds for flash fiction; £100 Dorset Award for best local winner or runner-up; anthology publication for all.
Email: frances@bridportprize.org.uk
For full entry rules and conditions see website. bridportprize.org.uk

Frogmore Poetry Prize
Closing date: 31st May 2013
Prizes: 200 guineas, 75 guineas, 50 guineas, plus subscriptions to The Frogmore Papers
Entry fee: £3
For poems, any theme or style, up to 40 lines
For full entry rules and conditions see website. frogmorepress.co.uk

Winning Writers Sports Poetry & Prose Contest
Closing date: 31st May 2013
Prize: for poetry or prose, $1,000, five $100 Honorable Mentions
Entry fee: $15
Email: adam@winningwriters.com
For one or two poems, short stories or essays or other prose, on a sporting theme, all with a 6,000-word maximum. International entries are welcome. Enter online. Submit unpublished work only.
For full entry rules and conditions see website. winningwriters.com/sports

Battered Moons Poetry Competition
Closing date: 31st May 2013.
Prizes: First prize, £300; second, £150; third, £75. The 3 winners and 4 commended poets will be invited to read their poems at the Swindon Festival of Poetry on Saturday 5th October 2013, when Alice Oswald will present the prizes and read from her own work. Winning and commended poems will appear in the Battered Moons pamphlet and website.
Entry fee: £3 each poem or £10 for 4. Online and postal entries accepted.
The fourth Battered Moons Poetry Competition is now open to all UK residents aged 18 or over and accepts poems on any topic and style of up to 40 lines. Main judge Alice Oswald and Cristina Newton will read all the poems.
For full entry rules and conditions see website. Queries to Cristina Newton on cristina.ne.newton@gmail.com
batteredmoons.com

4th Samuel Taylor Coleridge Memorial Poetry Prize
Closing date: 1st June, 2013.
Prizes: £300, £200, £100; publication
Free entry; 
For poems, up to 20 lines, on natural themes
johngarlandl@hemscott.ne

2nd All Wales Comic Verse Competition
(Sponsored by Tiny Rebel Brewing Co.)
Closing date 1st June, 2013
Prizes: £500 first prize; £300 second prize; £200 third prize
Entry fee: £3.00 per entry, up to 3 poems per person, no more than 30 lines long
The competition is part of the Caerleon Festival, Literary Weekend, 13th and 14th July 2013.
Full details can be obtained via the festival website. caerleon-arts.org/

Wirral Festival of Firsts Open Poetry Competition 2013
Closing date: 1st June 2013.
Prizes: First Prize: £200, Second Prize: £75, 3 runner-up prizes of £25
Entry fee: £3 per poem or £10 for 4 poems. Cheque or postal order payable to: "Festival of Firsts".
For poems on any subject, of no more than 40 lines. Submissions can be made online or by post. Postal submissions should include a separate sheet with the entrant's name, address and the titles of the poem(s) to: FOF Poetry Competition, 71 Alderley Road, Hoylake, Wirral CH47 2AU.
See website for all the competition rules and online entries. festivaloffirsts.com

4th Samuel Taylor Coleridge Memorial Poetry Prize
Closing date: 1st June 2013
Prizes: £300, £200, £100; publication.
Free entry;
For poems, up to 20 lines, on natural themes.
Email: johngarlandl@hemscott.net coleridgepoetryprize.com

Segora Poetry, Vignette and Short Story Competitions
Closing date for all three: 8th June 2013
Prizes: £150 £50 £30
Entry £3 50 poems & Vignettes £5 50 Short stories.
Poems max 40 lines, Vignettes Max 300 words, Short Stories max 3,000 words.
For full entry rules and conditions see website. poetryproseandplays.co.uk

Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition
Closing date: 14th June 2013.
Prizes: The Winner will be named 'Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2013' and will receive a book token for £50.00 plus a half case of wine, 2nd and 3rd Prize. Winners will receive book tokens for £25.00 each, the "Best Read" Prize will be a bottle of sparkling wine and the "People's Choice" will receive a book token for £20.00.
Entry fee: £5 for each poem.
The poem or poem sequence may be on any subject and in any style, but must not exceed 60 lines in length. Entries are judged anonymously and the poet's name and address should not appear on the poem itself.
For full entry rules and conditions see website.
canterburyfestival.co.uk/festival-poet-of-the-year.aspx

Aquillrelle Poetry Contest
Closing date: 15th June 2013.
Prizes: 1st Prize: $1000 and a gold certificate;  2nd Prize: $200 and a silver certificate; 3rd Prize: $50 and a bronze certificate. The winning poems will be published on-line.
Entry fee: 5$ per poem; any number of entries.
Length: 10-50 lines
Email entry: DOC attachment; subject: 'MAIN CONTEST 5'
For further details on how to enter go to website. aquillrelle.com/contestrules

Hungry Hill Writing Poets Meet Painters 2013
Closing date: 17th June 2013.
Prizes: There will be one cash prize of €200, for any poem in the competition. Additionally, the highest placed poem inspired by a ceramic work will receive the Mill Cove Poetry Award. If the overall winning poem relates to a ceramic work, the next eligible poem will receive the Mill Cove Poetry Award.
Entry fee: €8 per entry. Up to three poems may be submitted per entry. You may submit as many entries as you wish.
Theme: Poems must be about, or inspired by, any work or works of art (a) exhibited at Mill Cove Gallery and Sculpture Garden or Mill Cove Gallery Kenmare.
Each poem must not exceed 40 lines, and should be typed single-spaced.
For full entry rules and conditions see website.
hungryhillwriting.com/

Mslexia Poetry Competition 2013
Closing date: 17th June 2013
Prizes: 1st Prize: £2,000; 2nd Prize: £400; 3rd Prize: £200 also 17 runners up win £25 each. All winning poems will be published in issue 59 of Mslexia, published in September 2013.
Entry fee: £7 for up to three poems.
The competition is for unpublished poems of any length and in any style by women poets.
For more information visit website. mslexia.co.uk/pcomp_active.php

The Grist 2013 Chapbook
Closing date: 30th June, 2013.
Prize: professional chapbook and ebook publication, paying 10 and 30 royalties respectively.
Entry fee: £10; 
All types of imaginative writing - poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and any combination of 25-40 pages using chapbook format.
See website for more details. hud.ac.uk/grist

Keats-Shelley Prize
Closing date: 30th June, 2013
Prizes: £3,000 prize fund.
Entry fee: £5.
Essays on the Romantics, up to 3,000 words; poems up to 40 lines, theme 'noise'.
Email: susanna.seekings@talktalk.net
Website: keats-shelley.co.uk

Flash 500 Humour Verse Competition
Closing date: 30th June 2013
Prizes: £150, £100, £50
Entry fee:  £3 for one poem, £2.50 per poem thereafter
Open theme, humour verse up to 32 lines.
More details on flash500.com/index_files/humourverse.htm

Lightship International Prizes
Closing date: 1st July, 2013.
Poetry, up to 200 words.
Prize, £1,000.
Entry fee: £8.
Email: simon@lightshippublishing.co.uk
Website: lightshippublishing.co.uk

The Third Annual Bradford on Avon Fringe Festival Open Poetry Competition
Closing date: 12th July, 2013.
Prizes: First - £200; Runners up - £50 and £25.
Entry fees: £4 per poem or £10 for three poems. All subsequent poems £3 each.
The adjudicator of the competition is poet Roger Elkin. The winners will be announced at Words & Ears II at the Cellar Bar, The Swan, Bradford on Avon on Monday September 2nd 2013, which will be part of the Bradford on Avon Fringe Festival (August 31st-September 8th). All shortlisted poets will be invited to read their poems at this event.
For further details go to website. dawngorman.co.uk/Competition

The 2013 Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Closing date: Friday 26th July, 2013.
Prizes: £300 for each category plus winners will be published in Wasafiri.
Entry fee: UK Sterling £6.00 if entering one category, £10.00 for two and £15.00 for three categories
Categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing.
We welcome entries from all writers anywhere in the world!
For full entry rules and conditions see website. wasafiri.org/wasafiri-new-writing-prize.asp

The Portico Poetry Prize 2013
Closing date: 31st July, 2013
Prizes: 1st: £250, 2nd: £150, 3rd: £100.
Entry fee: £5 for the first poem, £2.50 per extra poem
Poems accepted on the theme of letters.
Poems, up to 40 lines, in English
Email: poetry@theportico.org.uk
For full entry rules and conditions see website. theportico.org.uk/prizes/poetry-prizes

Essex Poetry Festival 13th Open Poetry Competition
Closing date: 31st July 2013.
Prizes: £500 Second £250, Third £100 and 3 runner-up prizes of £25. Sole Adjudicator Matthew Caley.
Entry fee: Entry fee £3.00 per poem or £10 for 4 poems.
Winners & runners-up will be invited to read their winning poems at the festival. Winning poems will be published on the Festival website.
For full rules & entry form visit the website. essex-poetry-festival.co.uk/compa.html

Dream Quest One Poetry Contest
Closing date: 31st July 2013
Prizes: First Prize(USD):$250, 2nd:$125, 3rd:$50.
Entry fee:$5(USD) per poem submitted.
Open to anyone who loves expressing thoughts and feeling using the art of words! Write a poem, 30 lines or fewer, on any subject or theme, typed or neatly hand printed. Multiple and simultaneous entries are accepted. And don't forget to bring your dreams with you... All contest winners will be announced and published online, September 9th, 2013.  Mail entries/fees along with title of poem, name, address, phone#, and brief bio (tell us a little about yourself), on the coversheet to: Dream Quest One Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago Illinois 60654. Visit website for more info on how to enter! http://www.dreamquestone.com

SaveAsWriters' Shakespeare International Writing Competition 2013
Closing date:  24th August, 2013.
Prizes:  First Prize - £40; Second Prize - -£25; Third Prize - £15.
Entry fees - £2 per poem, £3 per prose piece.
Entries are invited for a Creative Writing competition for short works of poetry or prose inspired, broadly or otherwise, by any character from a Shakespearean play. The competition is open to all writers and international submissions are welcome. Poems maximum length 50 lines; short stories maximum length 3,000 words.
email: saveas@hotmail.co.uk
For more information go here: saveaswriters.co.uk/Poster.jpg

Earlyworks Comedy Competition
Closing date: 30th August 2013
Prizes: £100 first prize
Entry fee: £3 per entry or £15 for up to six entries
Poetry, short stories, cartoons, one liners - whatever you think will make us laugh!
Poetry 80 lines max: prose 1000 words max
For full entry rules and conditions see website. earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitions.htm

Cheshire Prize for Literature
Closing date: 1st September 2013.
Prizes: The Prize Winner will receive £2,000. Additional prize-money of £750 will be awarded, and the best entries will be published.
Entry fee: Free.
The Competition is open to residents of Cheshire, Warrington, Wirral and Halton including those who have ever lived or worked in the area.
For full entry rules and conditions see website.
chester.ac.uk/literatureprize/

The 1st Playing Bingo Poetry Competition
Closing date: 31st of October 2013.
Prizes: On offer are the following prizes for the winning entrants: 1st Place - £150; 2nd Place - £100; 3rd Place - £50. All entered poetry will be featured on this site in the Creative Corner Poetry section.
Entry fee: FREE. One entry per person.
Theme: "Bingo".
The minimum length for the poem is 10 lines or 200 words, the maximum length is 40 lines or 1000 words. All entries must be original and unpublished (in print, digitally or on the web.) All entries whether winning or not will be published on the Playing Bingo website.
For full entry rules and conditions see website. playingbingo.co.uk/competition

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