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deadline

2022

Judge

Mon 28th
February

Slipstream Poets Open Poetry Competition 2022
 
Entries may be made by post or online.
 
Prizes: 1st / 2nd / 3rd: £300 / £150 / £75;
The best West Sussex entry will also be awarded a separate prize of £50 and the Jim Johnston Chanctonbury Cup
 
Entry £5 for initial poem, £3.50 for each addtional poem
 
Winners will be notified individually by March 31st.
All results and the winning poems will be published on the Slipstream Poets website
 
Full details at Slipstream Poets

Roger Elkin

Sat 30th
April

Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2022
 
Poems up to 50 lines
 
Prizes: 1st £600; 2nd £300; 3rd £150
plus The Ware Sonnet Prize – £150
 
Entries (by post): £4 per poem. Rules/Entry Form (pdf)
 
Results mid-June. Prizegiving event, Friday 8th July.

Jonathan Edwards

Sat 30th
April

Grey Hen Poetry Competition 2022
 
For women over 60.
Poems up to 40 lines on any theme
 
Prizes: 1st £100; 2nd £75; 3rd £25
 
Entry: £3 per poem, £10 for four
 
Download rules and entry form from website or send sae to
Grey Hen Press, PO Box 269, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 9FE

Wendy French
and
Susan Utting

Tue 31st
May

The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2022
 
1st Prize: 250 guineas & 2 years subscription to The Frogmore Papers
1st & 2nd Runner-Up prizes: 75 and 50 guineas respectively & 1 year subscription
Shortlisted poets: copies of selected Frogmore Press publications
 

all shortlisted poets will be offered publication in Issue 100 of
The Frogmore Papers (September 2022)
 
Entry: £4 per poem
 
Download rules & entry details here (pdf)

John Freeman