Indigo Dreams Publishing
Length: Selection of ten poems to 36 lines each max
Style: Unrestricted
Theme: Open
Prizes: Two winners will have a poetry collection published by Indigo Dreams Publishing and receive 25 copies
All entries: £18.00 per block of ten poems
Entries close at midnight on October 31st 2013
For full details click here: www.indigodreams.co.uk
1st prize: £100 2nd prize: £75 3rd prize: £50
Entrance fee: £3 for one poem, £5 for 2 poems, £10 for 4 poems
Closing date: 8 November 2013
Judge: Ann Gray has an MA in Creative writing from the University of Plymouth. Her collections include At The Gate
(Headland, 2008) & The Man I Was Promised (Headland, 2004). Her poems have been selected for the Forward Prize
Anthology in 1995 and 2008, and she was commended for the National Poetry Competition, 2010, second in the
Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Prize 2013 and earlier this year, has been the poet in residence at the Cambridge
University Botanic Garden as part of the Thresholds Cambridge University Museums Project.
For full competition details and rules visit: www.fireriverpoets.org.uk
Prizes: £1,000, £250 & £50 + publication
Deadline: September 30 2013
£4 per poem or £10 for 3 poems
Judge: Philip Gross
Philip Gross is an award winning poet, whose collections have won many prizes including the TS Eliot Prize.
This is a fantastic opportunity to have your work read by a pre-eminent poet, as well as offering great prizes.
Full details of the competition, plus forthcoming competitions for
Debut Poetry Collection; Poetry Pamphlet Prize; Annual Short Story Prize; Annual Debut Novel
(or Novella) Prize; can be found here
The Plough Prize 2013 is now open for online or postal entries.
Judge: Andrew Motion
Length: Up to 40 lines
Style: Unrestricted
Theme: None
Prizes: 1st £1000, 2nd £500, 3rd £250
All entries: £5.00 per poem
Entries close at midnight on November 30th 2013
For full details and to download rules and entry forms click here: Plough Prize
Magma Poetry Competition
Magma Poetry is pleased to announce details of the 2013 Competition.
The entry period opens on 16 October 2013 and closes on 12 December 2013. The competition has two contests