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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There’s still – just – time to enter The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 The London Magazine is the UK’s oldest literary journal, and through its Poetry Prize looks for new voices to publish. The first prize is £500 and there are second and third p

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

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

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 • Poetry: Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines.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

The Paris Review

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In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. ©Ellis Rosen Dearest Poets,

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 There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines.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

Orion Magazine

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Poems are birds in the kingdoms of languagesAlways flying towards each other and paradise Poetry is a time tunnel through whichYou and I gaze at each otherTime immemorial and nowEvery year the world is breaking apartEvery year love would not end Poet

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

Poets & Writers

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When compiling Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, September 2020), editor Joshua Whitehead writes that it was important “to queer it towards the utopian.” He adds: “We have already

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

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

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 McLellan Poetry Prize 2022 is inviting entries. The prize is run by the Arran Theatre and Arts Trust as part of the annual McLellan Arts Festival. Entries are invited of original, unpublished poems up to forty lines, in English or Gaelic (with an

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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As the world went into lockdown earlier this year, the Centre for Place Writing invited some of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers, writers and artists, alongside emergent new voices, to examine what ‘place’ meant to them. Embracing poetry, essay, w

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

Writing Magazine

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Win £100 in each category for writing on a medical theme in the Society of Medical Writers Prose and Poetry Competition. The biannual competition from the Society of Medical Writers invites entries of fiction and non-fiction between 1,000 and 2,500 w

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym

Writing Magazine

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US small press Small Harbor Publishing is currently open for the Hybrid Chapbook series. Hybrid is defined as ‘a collection that combines genres or defies classification.’ This is a poetry series and submissions of chapbooks should be 20-50 pages. Ma

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry London Prize is inviting international entries. The first prize is £5,000. The second prize is £2,000 and the third, £1,000. This year’s judge is poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky. The winning poems will be published by Poetry London in pr

Writing Magazine

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The Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2022 is for the best single poem for children aged 7-11, any length and on any subject. The winner will receive £1,000 and the winning poem will be published in the summer issue of The Caterpillar. This year’s judge is Na

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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EastOver Press publishes books, a journal, and an annual anthology. They welcome subs from ‘emerging and established writers.’ For the EastOver Press the editorial team ‘focus on collections of short stories, essays, or poetry, though we are open to

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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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 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 American Poetry Review

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APR welcomes comments, criticism, and dialogue in response to work in the magazine. Authors of poems, essays, and other work will be given an opportunity to respond to letters scheduled for publication. Letters should be sent to: Letters to the Edito

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 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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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