Contests
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- Fish Poetry Contest
- Annual international poetry contest. Contest winners, as selected by renowned poets, are published in the Annual Fish Anthology. €1,000 first prize.
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- Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award
- Annual contest offers a $1,000 cash award, plus publication, for an imaginative work. Reading fee: $10. Deadline: June 15.
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- Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
- Seeks manuscript collections of unpublished poems. Prize: $500 cash, plus publication. Reading fee: $15. Deadline: October 31.
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- Indiana Review's Poetry Prize
- Seeks previously unpublished poetry. No restrictions on length or form. Prize is a $1000 honorarium and publication in the magazine. All entries considered for publication. Reading Fee: $15. Deadline: March 31.
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- Lost Horse Press
- The Idaho Prize is open to U.S. authors only. It offers $1000 plus publication for a book-length poetry manuscript of 48 pages or more. Entry fee: $25. Deadline: May 15.
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- MAG Poetry Competition
- Poetry competition judged by the entrants themselves. Single poem contest. Entry fee £6, prize fund accumulates at £2 per entry to £10,000. Deadline: April 30.
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- Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse
- Annual awards totaling $2,000 (including a $1,000 First Prize) are made for poems in traditional verse forms. Any variations on metrical, rhyming and/or formal poems are eligible. The judge's interpretation of "traditional" is loose rather than strict. No restriction on previous publication or previous awards. Minimum: 25 lines. Maximum: No limit. Minimum entry fee: $5. Closing date: June 30.
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- Meridian Editors’ Prize
- Annual poetry contest for a single poem (up to 2 pages). 1st prize $1,000, entry fee $16. Deadline: 6th January.
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- Poetry London
- One of Britain's leading poetry magazines, features original poems, and reviews, and sponsors a rewarding annual contest for unpublished poems, less than 80 lines in length.
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- Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry
- Annual poetry contest for a single poem. 1st prize $1,000, entry fee $20. Deadline: 10th December.
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- Slipstream Press Poetry Contest
- An annual poetry chapbook contest, worth $1,000, seeking up to forty pages of poetry in any style, format or theme. Entry fee: $15. Deadline: December 1, each year.
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- The Plough Prize
- Established international poetry competition. Open Poem, Short Poem and Poem for Children categories. £1700 prize fund, online or postal entry available.
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- Tom Howard Poetry Contest
- Annual contest, closing September 30, seeks original poems in any style, on any theme, and of any length. Published verse and simultaneous submissions are okay. Prize money totals $2,000, including a First Prize of $1,000. All prizewinners also receive a free copy of the Anthology of winning entries. Entry fee is $5 for every 25 lines.
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- Utmost Christian Poetry Contest
- Annual Christian poetry contest, closing each February, offers $4000 in cash prizes with other poetry contests year round.
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- Write Ways to Win Writing Contests
- Offers authors and contestants valuable advice extracted from the editor's own book, "Write Ways to Win Writing Contests", and provides links to two major booksellers.
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- American Screenwriting Competition
- Annual competition to uncover the best unproduced screenplays and in collaboration with the writer help develop and potentially produce them.