A quick mention for the deadline for Winchester Poetry Festival’s poetry competition – July 31st One of the UK’s premier competitions, and with a prize for Hampshire poets. Link below. https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize
A new poetry competition for 2023 – but be quick – entries close at the end of May The Crysse Morrison Prize for Poetry, from my home town of Frome
Another competition for you to consider entering… T’Articulation Poetry & Prose Writing Competition, 2023 The competition is based on two possible prompts from William Blake’s poem, Night as inspiration: 1) ‘Walking round the fold’ 2) ‘Our immortal day’ Competition first place winners for each prompt will be included in a beautifully illustrated hardback, clothbound anthology – alongside pieces from seasoned and professional writers from T’Articulation and the wider Portsmouth, UK writing community, using other line…
Last week to enter the Binstead Prize poetry competition, part of the South Downs Poetry Festival; SDPF POETRY COMP Don’t miss the SDPF Binsted Prize poetry competition. Top prize is £300. Deadline 15th April. Wendy Klein is the judge this year.
This year’s Binstead Poetry Competition is open for just under a month for entries. Part of the South Downs Poetry Festival, it closes on 15th April Details here http://www.sdpf.org.uk/competition/
A quick post to share details of a new, free to enter poetry competition, on the theme of kindness; You could see your poem on a limited edition postcard to be included in Candlestick Press’ popular Ten Poems of Kindness edited by Jackie Kay. This new Kindness pack will be stocked by book and gift shops across the UK and beyond. Full details below – this competition was shared on T’Articulation Portsmouth’s Facebook page the other day.…
Finally! My first success of 2022 (I’ve been focussing on existing projects and manuscript work primarily rather than sending stuff out so far this year). My prose poem At the Landfill of Memories has been selected for this year’s anthology (out of over 1,300 poems submitted). Dempsey & Windle are my publishers, so I like to enter this competition to support them (I don’t enter that many contests). It doesn’t mean I automatically get work…
A quick post this afternoon to mention an anthology open to submissions up and till June 30th – so if you are interested you’d better get on with it! CivicLeicester is inviting and accepting poems and short fiction on the theme, Settled Status or Indefinite Leave to Remain for All. The editors will also consider poems and short fiction exploring themes that include: ● lived experience of being a migrant or an undocumented migrant or…
I enter very few competitions, but will be entering this one as it’s for a great cause. Any other writers / artists / creative types out there, please consider doing the same, thank you! The Great Cre8 is an arts competition run by the Society of St James who support those without a home. Entry fees go directly towards their vital work. https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/TheGreatCre8
It can be a real challenge to write about something such as Covid-19. By write, I mean in the context of something that is publishable. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. There are times when I think I should be writing directly about our current situation, as if I have some kind of social duty to do so. Yet most of what I have written about Covid has been pretty marginal in terms of quality (and that’s…