International Lumen and Camden Poetry Competition 2015/2016 (deadline 14th Feb 2016)

International Lumen and Camden Poetry Competition 2015/2016 (deadline 14th Feb 2016)

 The International Lumen and Camden Poetry Competition 2015/2016 is open for entries, giving you the chance to have 20 pages of your poetry published in a perfect bound chapbook while also supporting the homeless, with the added benefit of being selected by the competition’s prestigious judge, George Szirtes.

This competition is unusual as the entry fee per poem is just £2.50 to make it possible for everybody to have a try. The winner will be selected on the basis of just one prizewinning poem (maximum length 40 lines), so you don’t have to submit the whole chapbook for a chance of being published. If you want to submit more poems there are discounts, with 6 poems costing just £10.

The winner will receive 50 copies of their chapbook to keep, sell, or give to friends. They will also be invited to read at the regular Lumen and Camden venues, if they can make it and would like to, and their chapbooks will also be offered for sale online and at the twice-monthly events. Money raised from chapbook sales by the publishers and by the Camden and Lumen Poetry Series will go to the Cold Weather Shelters supported by this project.

The closing date each year is February 14th, but it’s never too soon to enter. The chapbook will be published by Soaring Penguin Press.

Full prize details can be found on the Camden and Lumen website: www.camdenlumen.wordpress.com