Poetry library competitions Find the latest Poetry Contests in 2025 from top poetry magazines. Vermont Writers’ Prize. 2. To ENTER our Young Person’s Poetry Competition and to see more details on how to enter, click here. All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. The best source of information about small presses is The Poetry Library’s listings page. bottom of page Entrants are welcome to submit previously unpublished poems written in the English language. Announcing the 18th Annual SCCLD Teen Poetry Contest! How does it work? One winner from each library will be chosen in the following categories: Middle School (grades 6–8) and High School (grades 9–12). Become a Member; Make a donation; Name a seat; Supporters circles; Patrons; Corporate support; Create, learn & take part Fuel your creativity through arts-led workshops, and opportunities to get involved. Entrants are welcome to submit a previously unpublished poem of up to 50 lines. Entry Fee: $10 for one entry, $20 for 2 entries, $25 for 3 entries and $30 for 4 entries. This premier competition is renowned for discovering some of the most compelling poetry collections of the modern era. top of page. Southern Cross Literary Competition. Categories: Young Poets (11-17) Adult 18+ The Poetry Society awards £16,000 in prizes each year. Winners will be The Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2024 is now open for submissions of poetry. Founded by the Arts Council in 1953 and opened National Poetry Library; Write & publish; Competitions; Togetherness Poetry Challenge 2024. The Seventh Age Vanessa Raison Stanza Poetry Competition 2024; This Extraordinary General Meeting is brought to you by Trojan Records Mark Fiddes Stanza Poetry Competition 2024; This Is What I Was Thinking When You Asked Me Who I’d Slept With Before You Janet Dean Stanza Poetry Competition 2024; the things within me that count Julie The Indigo First Collection Competition 2024 is now open to poets who have not had a full collection or pamphlet published. The entrant’s name, address, e-mail, and phone number must not appear in the poems. Entry is free for under-18s, but is limited to one poem each. The Challenge emerges from the wish to hear all people’s voices, celebrate diversity, encourage collaboration, break Deadline: open on in selected months i. Spoken word; Free verse; Poems that rhyme; Awards Ceremony. This morning the winners were announced and I received an email stating I had not won. Entrants are welcome to submit a previously unpublished poem in the English language. Please make sure all entries reach us by 28 February 2025. Genres: Short story, poem, Winning and commended poems will be published in a competition anthology. 2nd Place – Lexi Ferguson. There are three age groups: 18+, 12 to 17, and 11 & under. For short stories, entries must be 1000 words or The National Poetry Competition, run by The Poetry Society since 1978, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem. This is the second time this prize has been offered. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a poet by profession or a poet at heart – this is your opportunity to be seen and heard, touch thousands of lives, and even be rewarded with one of the coveted AVBOB Poetry Washington, DC and Chicago, IL April 4, 2024 —The 2024 Poetry Out Loud ® National Finals will be held in Washington, DC, May 1-2, bringing together high school students from across the nation to the capital for an exciting poetry recitation competition, where one student will win the title of national champion and a $20,000 prize. Wytovich. Ladi Di, Featured Judge. The writer of the most engaging poem within each age category will win a prize. The closing date for the competition is midnight on 28th of February 2025 and the winners will be informed in April 2025 and awarded at the Launceston Poetry Festival (30 May – 1 June 2025). Poems must be 40 lines max from the first line Kyogle Writers Festival Poetry Competition Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition Mosman Youth Awards in Literature Poetry London Prize Publishable Friends of Paynesville Library Short Story Competition Open to: Kaveh Akbar‘s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Prize: $300. Lúibíní - 28. Poems must be 20 lines max and be on the theme of ‘Spirituality’. The top three poems are entered for the Forward Prize for Poetry (Best Single Poem), an award not open to the The library hosts regular free exhibitions themed around poets and poetry and on Friday mornings there’s Rug Rhymes, a half-hour poetry and rhyme reading session created for under 5s and their carers (note this is always a popular This competition is now closed and the judges are reading through the entries. The Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest provides scholarship, prizes, and recognition for the best poems submitted by young women who are sophomores or juniors in high school or preparatory Mr. Come and explore. are invited by writers of Prizes for Poetry 2024. The recipient of the Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship at Weymouth will be awarded a one-week stay at Weymouth Center for the Arts in Southern Pines, a $500. Your poem’s title. Select your poem to enter by clicking the Enter Contest button (You may need to scroll to see more of your poems). Use of ChatGPT or any other artificial intelligence is not permitted. Updated regularly with challenges and contests. Step two, after you have had poems accepted in magazines, is to contact small presses and poetry publishers. You can, of course, write less. The Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize. Participants aged 16 and over are encouraged to submit poems on the theme of dead cats written in the English language. Winning entries will be Defenestration Lengthy Poem Contest. Each entrant may submit one poem of no more than 20 lines on any subject ©2025 by The America Library of Poetry. 27 April: 2025 Young Writers’ Award 2025 marks 36 years of Stanton Library and North Sydney Council celebrating the writing talent of young people in our community with our annual Young Writers’ Award since 1989. The six best are published in Poetry News and on our dedicated Members' poems webpage. Submissions can be on "Expressions" 2021 National Student Poetry Contest (Original Submission Deadline of April 30, 2021) - Winners Announced September 30, 2021. For students in the USA who are in grades 3-12. There is also a cash prize of £150, plus a year long writing tuition package for the Kathryn This competition is looking for previously unpublished poems of up to 30 lines, on the theme ‘Treasures of Nature’. e. Every quarter, we invite Members to submit poems on a theme set by our judge, a professional poet. e: by a writer living in Yorks) The Dead Cat Poetry Prize is now open for submissions for their next competition. Her interviews are included in the 43rd and 44th Anniversary of Maryland State Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri’s the Poet and the Poem at the Library of Congress. ” Edinburgh poetry competition for EH residents. org. Entry fee: $25 Prize: $1,500 Conduit Publishing runs an annual open poetry contest to represent the best Monthly poem challenges offer fun competition throughout the year and are judged by you, the poets! Each month we will post a new challenge asking you to write and submit a poem based The Poetry Competition Awards Night will be held at the Central Library on Friday, 30 August 2024. The contest includes categories for poems of varying lengths—Dwarf (1-10 lines), Short (11-49 lines), and Long (50+ lines). Go here for links to “Web resources that help you identify scams, plus hilarious parodies sent to provoke the scamsters” of poetry competitions around the world. The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Today, the Academy of American Poets sponsors over two hundred annual prizes for poetry at U. One entry per person, of a poem no more than 25 lines long. Division II Welcome to the home of the AVBOB online poetry project, where all South African poets – expert or fledgling, professional or aspiring – have an equal opportunity to shine. The Children's awards will be held in the Rotary Lounge between 4PM and 5PM. Open to students from grades 3 to 12, the contest invites Here you may read the Annual Student Poetry Contest and Flash Contest rules. Dewey Wright submitted a poem to the National Library of Poetry contest and subsequently received an Editor’s Choice Award in 1994. Since it was launched in 2006, Poetry Aloud has grown from just a few hundred entries to almost 2,000 entries in 2017. Geelong Writers Prize 2023. com. A poetry contest from WA Poets Inc. Think along the lines of relationships between people, places 3. The special theme of the competition There will be two competition categories, one for prose and one for poetry. All work MUST be original. The Arts Richmond Poetry Prize 2025 is inviting entries of poems on the theme of ‘Changes’. Two Awards are available and include publication of the collections, author support and promotion following publication by Templar Poetry. The Teen and Adult awards will be held in the Rotary Lounge between 6PM and 7. . Library Lifeline part 24: Time-saving tips on how to create Enter our Student Poetry Contest. Deadline: January 1, 2025. 16 Jul — 27 Sep 2024. Free to join. Chinese Poetry Writing Competition has been organised since 1991 to help members of the public improve their proficiency in Chinese and enhance their ability to appreciate Chinese prosodic writings. In exceptional circumstances, poems and entry forms can be posted to us at: The Charles Causley International Poetry Competition 2, Cyprus Well, Ridgegrove Hill, Launceston, Cornwall PL15 8BT . Complete our online form to submit a competition. The winning and commended poems were published in issue 98 of Oxford Poetry. The top three poems are entered for the Forward Prize for Poetry The Poetry Kit International Poetry Competition is now open for its next round of submissions. They are listed below (if you run one on your site, please get in touch): Poetry Kit run a regularly updated poetry competitions list; Poetry Library list multiple The judges for the National Poetry Competition 2021 were Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long, who selected ten poems from 16,729 poems entered into the competition from 7,012 poets in 100 countries. Click here to read the poems by the Division Winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Arundel Literary Festival Poetry Competition. The deadline for entries is Winner announced at World Poetry Day event at Geelong Library & Heritage Centre: We received a total of 597 entries to the competition, which was a fabulous response! The overall winner of the Prize was announced at our This contest is open to poets age 18 and older living in Loudoun County or one of our reciprocal districts. Sponsored by Tempe Public Library and Arizona State Get your entries in for our 2024 competition for a single poem. 1 poem will receive the overall prize. Accepting 15 poems on any theme to 40 lines max, from first line including stanza breaks. The Tempe Writing Contest accepts submissions of original works of fiction, creative nonfiction (including memoirs and essays) or poetry for the Tempe Writes: An Anthology. Restrictions: Entrants must be a US high school student or a home-schooled student in grades nine through twelve. Entrants are welcome to submit up to six previously unpublished poems on the theme of ‘Friendship’. The National Library of Jamaica is proud to announce the 2024 cycle of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Young Writer’s Prize for Poetry. 23 Aug — 25 Oct 2024 . Submissions of up to three poems are invited from poets aged 30 and under. 3rd Place – Lillian Atkinson . Creative Writing Groups at Dublin City Libraries » more details. 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