Current Free Poetry Competitions
Please read our Rules and Information Before Entering, and please note that we only accept entries from UK residents. If you live outside the United Kingdom you may be interested in The UK Poetry Library, who accept submissions from all over the world.
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Festival Of Poetry (Closing Date: 14th June 2013)
There's a £100 prize to the winner of our latest free poetry competition - and you have three chances to win.
As well as choosing one winner we are going to publish the best of the rest in a brand new book.
The title of the competition is Festival Of Poetry, but your entry doesn't have to be a poem on a fixed subject - you can let your imagination run free!
Your entry must be something you haven't sent to us before.
You can submit up to three poems of no more than 25 lines (including blank lines) and 160 words each.
You can enter online via our online submission form, or by post to:
Festival Of Poetry, United Press Ltd, Admail 3735, London, EC1B 1JB (Just make sure you include your full name and address on your entry).
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National Poetry Anthology 2014 (Closing Date: 30th June 2013)
We are delighted to invite FREE entries for the National Poetry Anthology.
The competition aims to encourage more people to write poetry. It’s open to all UK residents, young or old. Over 250 winners are selected every year, each one representing a different UK town or area.
All winners are published in the anthology and all receive a FREE copy of the book. Send up to THREE poems (on any subject) up to 25 lines (including blank lines) and 160 words each, by June 30th 2013 to:
National Poetry Anthology, United Press Ltd, Admail 3735, London, EC1B 1JB.
Or you can enter online via our online submission form.
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Who Should Enter Our Free Poetry Competitions?
Our free poetry competitions are open to any UK resident. Our overall objective with these competitions is to increase the level of interest in poetry and to encourage people to start writing poetry for themselves, so it really doesn’t matter what level you are currently at. The absence of an entry fee makes these competitions totally accessible!
Our main poetry competitions are the annual National Poetry Anthology and Local Poem competitions, both of which carry a £1000 first prize to the overall winner.
You can find details of all our past National Poetry Anthology winners here, and details about our past Local Poem Competition winners here.
