The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 will be £5,000. In addition the winner will be invited to read at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University for the annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry, provided with travel, accommodation, and an honorarium. Learn more here. Return to …
Today is the first of two deadlines for the C$200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for 2018. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than June 30, 2017 for books published between January 1 and June 30, 2017. Learn more here about how to enter and how to obtain entry forms. Return …
The Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country BUT at least one of the winners will be a debutante (with no chapbook or book published previously). Up to 25 - 50 other entrants will be publicly listed as "highly commended". The …
The Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Touted as the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 21st year, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, films, family …
Entries are open for the Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Competition, with a first prize of £1000 for a single poem. Poet Clare Pollard is the guest judge. 50 poems will be longlisted and published in Live Canon's 2017 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed by the Live …