Writing Magazine

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There’s still – just – time to enter The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 The London Magazine is the UK’s oldest literary journal, and through its Poetry Prize looks for new voices to publish. The first prize is £500 and there are second and third p

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry London Prize is inviting international entries. The first prize is £5,000. The second prize is £2,000 and the third, £1,000. This year’s judge is poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky. The winning poems will be published by Poetry London in pr

Homes & Antiques

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For two years this was the home of a prolific 19th-century Romantic poet. Today, it’s a museum. The darling of English literature is said to have penned one of his odes beneath a plum tree in the garden. He fell in love with the girl next door and be

The Paris Review

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In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. ©Ellis Rosen Dearest Poets,

Writing Magazine

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Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2020 is open for entries. There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines. The first prize is £500, and there are seco

New Zealand Listener

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Arthur Bardruin flops naked on to Rock Oyster Island, populated by hipsters, weed-smokers, superannuated hippies and sybarites of many varieties. Bardruin is an old-style inspired, rhapsodic, sex-driven bard. Literary scholar John Newton’s novel-leng

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry Society has announced that the world’s biggest competition for poets aged 11 to 17, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, is open for entries for the 2020 competition. Winners’ prizes include mentoring, Arvon courses, Poetry Society mem

Poets & Writers

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BY DANA ISOKAWA THE TEN poetry collections featured in our thirteenth annual roundup of debut poets offer a glimpse of the wide range of contemporary poetry. Each of the books, published in 2017, shows just how much poetry can do. Eve L. Ewing’s Elec

The American Poetry Review

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Stone is tenderto lichen.Lichen is tenderto the earth and its otherinhabitants. What areyou and I tender to? When a black holeswallows a star,it must do sotenderly, sincea universe hingeson tenderness. At midnightyour candle burnswith tenderness,drea

Writing Magazine

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There are occasions when a poet wants to write in a way they think is more flexible for an audience. They are reaching back into the past into the oral traditions of folk songs, ballads, and sometimes vaudeville recitations. In other words a poet may

Poets & Writers

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When compiling Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Arsenal Pulp Press, September 2020), editor Joshua Whitehead writes that it was important “to queer it towards the utopian.” He adds: “We have already

Poets & Writers

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“A poem can exist in a specific cultural or emotional moment, but it can also sustain and be revisited over and over again,” says poet Adam Deutsch, the publisher of Cooper Dillon Books (www.cooperdillon.com), a ten-year-old press dedicated to “the v

Poets & Writers

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FOR our fifteenth annual look at debut poetry, we chose ten poets whose first books struck us with their formal imagination, distinctive language, and deep attention to the world. The books, all published in 2019, inhabit a range of poetic modes. The

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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As the world went into lockdown earlier this year, the Centre for Place Writing invited some of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers, writers and artists, alongside emergent new voices, to examine what ‘place’ meant to them. Embracing poetry, essay, w

Poets & Writers

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“Poetry can change your life, and it doesn’t happen on the page; it happens in the rooms and places where poetry connects you to people who change how you are in the world,” says Megan Burns, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press (tremblingpillowpress.

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym

Writing Magazine

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Segora International Writing Competitions 2021 has categories for poetry, short stories, vignettes and one-act plays. The annual creative writing contest is run by Poetry Prose and Plays. • Poetry: Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. Th

Writing Magazine

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Win £1,000 first prizes in the Open and EAL categories of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition Enter original, unpublished poems no longer than 50 lines. The competition is for new and established poets and international entries are we

Writing Magazine

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Wells Festival of Literature is inviting entries for its 2020 creative writing competitions. The competitions are in the following categories: • Open Poetry. The first prize is £1,000, and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Enter poe

Writing Magazine

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Short Circuit is an unusual short story and poetry market which delivers its content in dispensers in busy public places. They want to ‘inspire, delight, move, and challenge readers’ with quick reads to distract them on their commute or while visitin

Writing Magazine

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The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The international competition invites entries from poets anywhere in the world. There is a first prize of £200, a second prize of £100 and a third prize of £50. There is a

Writing Magazine

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The Winchester Poetry Prize 2020 is open for entries. The international competition invites entries of original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Winning and commended

Writing Magazine

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The Plough 2021 Poetry Prize is open for entries This year the annual competition from Plough Arts Centre will be judged by Roger The competition is for original, unpublished poetry up to forty lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second an

Writing Magazine

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Train River Press is a new US small press which favours poets, run by women, owned by women. They are proud of their relationship with their authors and support and ‘provide platforms for emerging and established poets’. Submissions are now open for

Writing Magazine

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A biannual literary magazine featuring stories and poetry from up and coming writers Shooter is now open to submissions for its Winter 2021 issue after a one issue hiatus of its summer issue. The theme had not been decided at the time of writing so c

Writing Magazine

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Buzzwords Poetry Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is for original, unpublished poems up to seventy lines, will be judged by Penelope Shuttle. Proceeds from the competition will be used to fund the Buzzwords poetry night in

Scoop

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Howdy Scoopets, I’m ecstatic to be guest editor on this musically poetic issue. Poetry has been a huge part of my life, starting out as a hobby in school, becoming a pastime as I took my poems to the stage and then turning into a career as I got pub

The American Poetry Review

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“Likenesses is an origin myth, in that it attempts to create the world by naming it. But it’s too late in the game to imagine that whatever is named could simply be, without at the same time being—becoming—something else. Or many somethings elses…. I

Writing Magazine

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Buzzwords Poetry Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition is run by the Cheltenham-based poetry organisation Buzzwords, which runs gatherings, open mic nights and workshopping sessions. The competition is for original, unpublished poems

Amateur Gardening

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“Our love of nature (and the desire to create, encourage and nurture it within our garden) is the source of many good things. There are the health benefits: both physical and mental, as well as benefits to the environment and its flora and local faun