deadline

2023

Judge

Sun 31st
Dec

Enfield Poets’ Poetry Competition
 
Prizes: £500 / £250 / £125
Winning & Commended poets invited to read at prize-giving event on 3rd February 2024
 
Enter by post or online.
£4 per poem / £10 for 3 poems.
 
Enfield Poets competition page

David Constantine

deadline

2024

Judge

Sun 7th
Jan

The Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival Poetry Competition
 
Poetry on the theme of ‘Nature Unbound’
Maximum 30 lines
Three age groups: 18 & Over, 12 to 17, 11& Under
 
Prizes: 18 & Over – £300, £50;
12 to 17 – £100; 11 ∓ Under – £50
All shortlisted poems will be printed in a pamphlet
 
Entry: 18 & Over £4 per poem
Under 18’s free but limited to 1 poem
 
Results announced early February.
Reading & prize-giving Sat 17th Feb during festival
Entry now open. Shepton Snowdrops website

Wendy Pratt

Wed 31st
Jan

Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition, 2024
 
Prizes: £1,000 / £300 / £100
plus 4 prizes of £50
Prize-winning poems will be posted online and published in annual Folio.
Prize winners reading event with judge in Tunbridge Wells, April 16th 2024
 
Entries by e-mail only.
£5 per poem / £4 each for 3 or more poems.
 
K&S competition page

Kathryn Gray

Fri 31st
May

The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2024
 
poems of no more than 40 lines
 
1st Prize: 250 guineas & 2-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers
Runners-up: 1st – 75 guineas & 2nd – 50 guineas, & 1-year subscription
Shortlisted poets published in Issue 104 & will receive selected Frogmore Press publications
 
Entry by post only: £4 per poem.
 
entry & payment details

Graham Mort