Scoop

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HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH AN IDEA FOR YOUR COMPETITION POEM? The criteria was ‘place’ and the first thing that came to my mind was home. Home to me means many things one of which is Scotland, which is where I have lived all my life. So I decided to b

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 There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines.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

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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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

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

Poets & Writers

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In his second poetry collection, Together and by Ourselves, published in April by Copper Canyon Press, Alex Dimitrov questions the myths and realities of loneliness and intimacy. The poems are tonally diverse—aphoristic in one moment, wondering in an

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

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

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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This year, The Paris Review will engage in an exciting mission to expand its reaches through the world of poetry. For each of our next four issues, our editor, Emily Nemens, will work in tandem with four quite different, highly esteemed poets to find

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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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

The Christian Science Monitor

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A 1395 translation of the Bible demonstrates that the word 'sad' didn’t mean what it does now.

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

Country Life

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Marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wordsworth (1770–1850), this second edition of Stephen Gill's masterful biography (first published in 1989) has been fully revised and updated with the latest scholarship to make it the definitive study o

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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Glass Lyre is an independent literary press which publishes ‘poetry collections, chapbooks, select short and flash fiction, and the occasional anthology’. The editorial team feel that their books should be ‘fine literature to rejuvenate the spirit, f

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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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

Writing Magazine

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Fosseway Writers are inviting entries on the theme of ‘Promise’ for their poetry competition. The judge is Martin Grey and the prizes are £50, £30 and £20, with a special £10 prize for the best local poet. Enter poems up to 40 lines. The entry is £5

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

Writing Magazine

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Fiction, creative non fiction and poetry on the theme of ‘Industrial Revolution’ are invited for the Zoetic Press NonBinary Review, an award winning quarterly literary journal and you have the freedom to explore every facet of that theme in any way t

Literary Hub

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In the first of a series looking at the work being done at writing and artists’ residences across America (and beyond!), we’re checking in with the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York (about two hours north of NYC). We asked several recent

Writing Magazine

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• Twist short story competition (see p29) For short stories, 1,500-1,700 words, with a twist; entry fee £6, £4 for subscribers; closing date, 15 July. Ref Code: Jun20/Twist • Creative non-fiction competition (see p29) For creative non-fiction, 1,500-

Writing Magazine

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The Puritan describes itself as one of Canada’s premier online literary magazines. Based in Toronto, the quarterly title is currently celebrating its fiftieth issue and is committed to publishing the best in new fiction, poetry, interviews, essays an