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Posted by Mick North in Competitions, News, Opportunities on August 2, 2010

All the competitions with August closing dates. If you’re quick (6 August deadline), you might be in with a chance in the massive £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize or the prestigious Arvon International Poetry Competition, which this year offers its largest ever first prize, £7,500.

If you miss these, spend the rest of the summer fine-tuning your entries for Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Works competition and take a punt on a £500 prize plus trimmings.

Find all these and more prizes here …

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Picador means prizes

Posted by Mick North in Competitions, News on June 2, 2010

If you’re a poet looking for a home for your first collection, eyes on the prize – Picador, persuaded by their poetry editor Don Paterson, are offering a small-but-perfectly-formed publisher’s advance and publication on their award-winning poetry list, alongside some of the finest contemporary poets in the English language.

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The Third Way

Posted by Mick North in Opportunities, Submissions on June 1, 2010

No – not that one. We’re not pining for the heady days of brand New Labour, when Tony Blair fell in love with Anthony Giddens. This one’s a Christian culture and current affairs magazine, its poetry editor is West Cumbria-based poet Martyn Halsall, and he’s looking for poems.

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No religion, and no poems about writing poems …

Posted by Mick North in News, Opportunities, Submissions on March 23, 2010

… but just about everything else is welcome at Maryport-based poetry mag The Journal, and editor Sam Smith is always open to submissions. Check The Journal’s website for guidelines.

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New U3A ‘popular science’ reading group in Penrith

Posted by Mick North in Courses, News on March 23, 2010

This new U3A (University of the Third Age) reading group starts on Thursday 8 April. It’s for people interested in what has been happening over the last few decades in and around life sciences: genetics, cell biology, evolution. No previous science background is needed – just an interest in how living creatures work and what scientists have been, and are, working on.

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Competitions compendium

Posted by Mick North in Competitions on March 9, 2010

We can’t find a better competitions listing than that provided by The Poetry Kit. It covers short story and other creative writing competitions as well as poetry, so we suggest you bookmark it and visit frequently or – better still -sign up for their competitions newsletter (emailed on the first of every month).

There’s also the Kudos magazine and website …

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Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition – four £500 prizes plus publication

Posted by Mick North in Competitions, Opportunities on February 19, 2010

Deadline: 8 May 2010. For short collections of poetry of between 18 and 24 pages, judged by Pat Winslow. For full details visit Templar’s website here.

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Ted Walters International Writing Competition

Posted by Mick North in Competitions, Opportunities on February 19, 2010

Deadline: 31 May 2010. Organised by the University of Liverpool Creative Writing Society for Lifelong Learning. Three categories – poetry, short stories and plays – each with a first prize of £200. Click here for more information and an application form.

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Children’s Laureate Supports Poetry Competition in Honour of Artist Hannah Frank

Posted by Adrian Lochhead in Competitions on February 8, 2010

A new poetry competition, launched to celebrate the life and work of the late Glasgow artist Hannah Frank, is now open for entries. Entrants, who will be divided into five categories depending on age, must write a poem of not more than 40 lines taking their inspiration from any one of Hannah’s distinctive, other-worldly black [...]

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Poetry competition £5k first prize

Posted by Adrian Lochhead in Competitions, News on January 27, 2010

Multi-award winning poet and short story writer Jackie Kay and Anglesey-based poet and Poetry Wales Editor Zoë Skoulding have been announced as judges for the 2010 Cardiff International Poetry Competition. The competition, which is now officially open, is one of the UK’s leading poetry competitions and offers one of the largest monetary prizes for a [...]

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