Writing Magazine

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A new poetry prize from the Edward Thomas Fellowship invites entries on any subject, in any style, up to 40 lines. Each writer may enter up to three poems. Prizes are £150, 2x£75 and up to six highly commended awards of £25. The judge will be poet Ja

Scoop

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Howdy Scoopets, I’m ecstatic to be guest editor on this musically poetic issue. Poetry has been a huge part of my life, starting out as a hobby in school, becoming a pastime as I took my poems to the stage and then turning into a career as I got pub

Psychologies

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Listen to the following ‘The Poetry Pharmacy’ podcast episode by William Sieghart, which explains the inspiration behind his anthology, The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-And-True Prescriptions For The Heart, Mind And Soul (Penguin, £14.99): soundcloud.com/5

Writing Magazine

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There are occasions when a poet wants to write in a way they think is more flexible for an audience. They are reaching back into the past into the oral traditions of folk songs, ballads, and sometimes vaudeville recitations. In other words a poet may

Writing Magazine

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Devil’s Party Press is in favour of older writers. The editorial team ‘believed that there should be someone publishing older writers who had never been published before’. Why? Because ‘the older you get, the better your stories get, and the better y

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry Society has announced that the world’s biggest competition for poets aged 11 to 17, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, is open for entries for the 2020 competition. Winners’ prizes include mentoring, Arvon courses, Poetry Society mem

Writing Magazine

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The theme of this year’s British Czech and Slovak Association Writing Competition is Freedom. Entries must be on the links between Britain and the lands now comprising the Czech and Slovak Republics or society in the Republics since 1989. The theme c

Writing Magazine

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Short Circuit is an unusual short story and poetry market which delivers its content in dispensers in busy public places. They want to ‘inspire, delight, move, and challenge readers’ with quick reads to distract them on their commute or while visitin

Writing Magazine

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A poetry magazine which has been around for over forty years and is still going strong, Arc Poetry has a reading period which opens on 1 September and closes on 31 December. ‘We feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wild-like and prose

Writing Magazine

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Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2020 is open for entries. There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines. The first prize is £500, and there are seco

Writing Magazine

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Segora International Writing Competitions 2021 has categories for poetry, short stories, vignettes and one-act plays. The annual creative writing contest is run by Poetry Prose and Plays. • Poetry: Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. Th

St. Louis Magazine

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In their debut poetry collection, Paul Tran is unbound by form or inhibition. The 28 poems of All the Flowers Kneeling, out February 8, communicate trauma, violence, lost homes, and lost selves with a tenderness and understanding that softens the rou

Writing Magazine

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The theme for the 2021/22 Never Such Innocence Poetry Competition for young poets is ‘Life After Conflict’. NSI hopes that poets entering the competition will be inspired to think about how people, communities and countries will be inspired to build

The American Poetry Review

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When she sees me, she turns awayAs if there weren’t, between us, things.—Ahmad Shawqi staring at you,we held ideals, earlier I told you howmuch I loved your socks, we smiled andsipped on boiling thyme, yousaid it was time to go,I went:your hairblack,

Psychologies

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• Ask family and friends to share poems, quotes and lyrics that have consoled them during difficult periods. • Get a virtual consultation at the UK’s first Poetry Pharmacy in Bishops Castle, Shropshire. A poet will ‘prescribe’ a poem just for you. po

Writing Magazine

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The Teignmouth Poetry Festival Poetry Competition is inviting entries of original, unpublished poems no longer than 36 lines. In the open category, which will be judged by Katrina Naomi, the prizes are £600, £300 and £200. The local category for poem

Writing Magazine

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Fosseway Writers are inviting entries on the theme of ‘Promise’ for their poetry competition. The judge is Martin Grey and the prizes are £50, £30 and £20, with a special £10 prize for the best local poet. Enter poems up to 40 lines. The entry is £5

Writing Magazine

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The Soldiers Arts Academy International Poetry Competition 2022, an international contest for poems from the military community, is running for a second year. The SAA International Poetry Competition has an open theme, and is open to all members of t

Writing Magazine

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Buzzwords Poetry Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition is run by the Cheltenham-based poetry organisation Buzzwords, which runs gatherings, open mic nights and workshopping sessions. The competition is for original, unpublished poems

Writing Magazine

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The Plough 2021 Poetry Prize is open for entries This year the annual competition from Plough Arts Centre will be judged by Roger The competition is for original, unpublished poetry up to forty lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second an

The Big Issue

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Finding joy in a coming-of-age story for the Deaf Sara Novic Adding a grown-up dimension to the Peter Pan story Livia de Paolis Getting to a flight is the source of some flute-based family tension Sam Delaney Tom Cruise does like to belt out a

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize 2022 will receive £250 guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The annual Frogmore Poetry Prize invites entries of original, unpublished poetry no longer than 40 lines. The winner’s prize is

Writing Magazine

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The Winchester Poetry Prize 2020 is open for entries. The international competition invites entries of original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Winning and commended

Poets & Writers

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When Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather started Platypus Press (platypuspress.co.uk) in 2015, they considered themselves a bit of an odd fit, since neither had worked at a press or published much of their own work. But with a love of reading and a w

Writing Magazine

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The South Downs Poetry Festival is inviting entries for the Binsted Prize 2022. The annual prize is for original, unpublished poems on any theme, no longer than fifty lines. Prizes are £300, £150 and £50. This year’s judge is Naomi Foyle. The entry f

Writing Magazine

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The Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2021 is inviting entries. John McAuliffe and Linda Gregerson are the judges for the contest from Coffee House Poetry, and will read all the entries. The first prize is £2,000. There is a second prize of £1,00

Writing Magazine

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Wells Festival of Literature is inviting entries for its 2020 creative writing competitions. The competitions are in the following categories: • Open Poetry. The first prize is £1,000, and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Enter poe

Writing Magazine

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The Rialto Nature & Place Poetry Competition 2022 is open for entries. The Rialto Nature and & Place Poetry Competition is being run in association with the RSPB, BirdLife International, Cambridge Conservation Initiative and The University of Leeds P

Civil War Times

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STRUCK BY HOW MANY miles were between his lover and himself, this Civil War soldier not only took the effort to send this 1/6th plate tintype of himself back home, he also tucked inside the case several slips of paper with verses of poetry. “Forget m

Writing Magazine

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The Fish Poetry Prize invites entries of original, unpublished poems up to sixty lines. The first prize in the annual contest from Fish Publishing is €1,000. The second prize is a week in residence at Anam Cara Writers’ Retreat, and the third prize i