Competitions

Poetry Kit Summer Poetry Competition 2013 (deadline 30th Sept)

The Poetry Kit competition this year is for poems on the theme of "stories" (this can be broadly interpreted).

There are no style or length restrictions but it should be stressed that a short poem is just as likely to be

selected as a longer one.

Competition Judge; Jim Bennett

1st prize: £100.

All shortlisted poems will be published as a "Poem of the Week" on the Poetry Kit Blog and the top five will

be invited to be part of our CITN Featured Poet series.

ONLINE ENTRY ONLY

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All entries must be received before midnight 30th September 2013

Entries received after this time will be discarded.

First prize is £100 and the winning poem plus those selected for special commendation will be published at

the Poetry Kit website.

Entry fees: 1 poem £3.50 3 Poems £8.00 5 poems £10

For more details go to: www.poetrykit.org/comp2013

Charles Causley Poetry Competiton 2013 (deadline Nov 18th)

The Charles Causley Poetry Competition 2013 is now open for entries.

The prize is open to anyone, including non-UK applicants, aged 18 and over by the closing date of the competition.

The closing date of the competition is 5pm (UK time), 18 November 2013.

First prize is £3000.

2nd £500

3rd: £100

There is no limit on the number of entries a single entrant can make, but additional entries incur further entry fees

For full details of the competition go to: Charles Causley Competition

Havant Literary Festival Competition 2013 (deadline 31st Aug)

Entries are invited for this year's Havant Poetry Competition.

Details of how to enter can be found on the entry form.

The theme for this year's competition is "renewal".

Havant Literary Festival are very pleased to have secured the services of experienced competition judge and widely

published and much admired poet, Wendy Klein, as the competition's sole adjudicator this year.

The first prize is worth £400 with two further cash prizes and the opportunity to read or have read your prize-winning

or commended entry at a special event at the festival.

Entries open from 1st May until 30th August.

Unlimited entries per person, with a cost of £4 per entry.

What's Your Place Competition (deadline 31st Dec)

Start date: 1 June 2013

Closing Date: 31 December 2013

Entry fee: none

Prize: £100 plus publication in our online magazine

Organised by: Holland Park Press

Holland Park Press invite you to write a poem about a neighbourhood that’s important to you.

It could be the place you grew up in, the area you live in now, or a neighbourhood which influenced your life in a particular way.

It could well be a place you visited on holiday, or city that made a big impression on you, or equally well a place that has blighted

your life ever since. It could be a house, a café, school or a park, a neighbourhood, a motorway, railway station, any place that

defines the neighbourhood.

It’s about your take on the place but at the same time they’re looking for an individual vision that has a universal resonance;

in other words, a poem which uses the literary form to say something more, and which is not just about yourself.

Contact and Ffi: www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/magazine

Living With Dementia Magazine Poetry Competition (deadline 30th June)

Living with dementia magazine's poetry competition 2013

The deadline for entries to Living with Dementia magazine's second poetry competition is the end of June.

Be sure to send your entry in time for it to be considered.

All poems entered should be about dementia and they must take up no more than one side of A4.

We will only be able to accept one entry per person.

The winners will be judged by Ian McMillan, the presenter of BBC Radio 3’s The Verb and poet-in-residence for both English National Opera

and Barnsley Football Club.

The poems will be shortlisted by a panel that will include people living with dementia, along with our last poetry competition winner Lesley

Perrins, poet John Killick, Angela Macmillan from the Reader Organisation and Helen Helmer from the Publishing team.

Please send in your poetry competition entry by 30 June.

Email your entry to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Or, post your entry to: Poetry Competition, Alzheimer’s Society, Devon House, 58 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1LB.