Dream Quest One Poetry Contest  Closing date: 23rd April 2018. Prizes(USD): First Prize: $250, 2nd: $125, 3rd: $50. All winners will be published in Dare to Dream pages. Entry fee: $5(USD). International, open to everyone! Now accepting poems 30 lines or fewer, on subject or theme. Email: alwest56@hotmail.com Website: http://www.dreamquestone.com Red Shed Open Poetry Competition Closing date: 28th April 2018. Prizes: 1st - £100; 2nd - £50; Short listed poems - £10 plus Wakefield Postcode prize - £25. Entry fee: £3 for first entry, £2 for each poem subsequently entered. Looking for: For poems up to 50 lines. https://www.currockpress.com/currockpresscom.html Poets Meet Politics International Open Poetry Competition Closing date: 28th April 2018. Prizes: First prize of €500 for each competition, with a second prize of one week's accommodation in the Creativity Cabin, (http://www.thecreativitycabin.com) and a third prize of €100. Entry fee: €12 per entry (up to 3 poems per entry) Looking for: Poems may be on any political theme, broadly or narrowly interpreted. Website: http://hungryhillwriting.com/competition.html Southport Writers' Circle Annual International Poetry Competition 2018 Closing date 30th April 2018. First Prize: £150, Second Prize: £75, Third Prize: £25, (In addition: £25 Humour Prize). Entry fee: £3 per poem or four poems for £10. Further details: A maximum of 40 lines per poem is allowed. Poems should bear no identification of the poet. Humour entries should be marked with an 'H'. Humour entrants are not disqualified from winning main prizes. Website:  http://www.swconline.co.uk Ver Poets Open Poetry Competition Closing date: 30th April 2018. Prizes: £600, £300, £100. Winning and selected poems will be published in the competition anthology. Entry fee: £4, £10 for three, £2 each extra. Anthologies £4 per copy plus £1 p&p. Looking for: poetry up to 30 lines; open theme/form. Email: gillknibbs@yahoo.co.uk  Website: www.verpoets.org.uk  Earlyworks Press Poetry Competition 2018 Closing date: 30th April 2018. Prizes: £100 first prize, £25 runner up; £5 for commendations and/or any we show on the website. Entry fee: £3.50 per poem, £15 for up to six entries. Further details: Poems must be the work of the entrant and not simultaneously entered for other competitions. Email: services@earlyworkspress.co.uk Website: http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitiondetails.htm Grey Hen Poetry Competition Closing date: 30th April 2018. Prizes: £100, £50, £25, plus website publication. Entry fee: £3, £10 for four. Looking for: Previously unpublished poems, up to 40 lines, by women over 60 before end of June 2018. Email: info@greyhenpress.com Website: http://www.greyhenpress.com/poetry-competition- 2018/ The 70th Swanwick 2018 Writing Magazine Competition Closing date: 30th April 2018. Prizes: Inclusive week at Swanwick Writers' 2018 Summer School for each category winner, Writing Magazine Creative Writing manuscript appraisal for second-winners, Writers' 6- Artists' Yearbook 2018 for third. Entry fee: £5 for each work entered. Looking for: Short stories, poems and writing for children. The theme for all entries this year is ‘BONDING’. Email: secretary@swanwickwritersschool.org.uk  Website: https://www.swanwickwritersschool.org.uk/ Creative Writing for All - Competition Closing Date: 30th April 2018. Poetry Prizes: £60, £30, £15. Entry fee: £5, additional entries £3. Theme: Cats and/or Dogs. Further details: You are invited to write a poem of up to 40 lines on the above theme. Visit website for further entry requirements. Entry forms by email: ce.apps@tesco.net Website: www.writing-experiment.com The Page is Printed Closing date: 4th May 2018. Prizes: 3 x £100, 3 x £25 under 18s. Entry fee: £5 for 1, £10 for up to three. Under 18 years free. Looking for: A single A4 page of writing in any style on any subject. Email: thepageisprinted@gmail.com Website: www.tacchi-morris.com/whats-on/the-page-is- printed Templar Quarterly Portfolio Pamphlet Awards Closing date: 14th May 2018. Prizes: Publication by Templar Poetry. Entry fee: £12. Looking for: Full-length poetry pamphlets (10-12 pages). Email: info@templarpoetry.co.uk  Website: https://templarpoetry.com/quarterly-portfolio-award  Wigtown Poetry Competition Closing date: 27th May 2018. Prizes: In 2017: £1,500, £400, Gaelic Prize £250, Scots Prize £250, 8 £25 runners-up. Entry fee: £6.50, £17 for three, £5 after that. Looking for: For poems, up to 40 lines in English, Scots or Scots/Irish Gaelic. Email: mail@wigtownbookfestival.com Website: www.wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp  Welsh Poetry Competition 2018 Closing date: 27th May 2018. Prizes: 1st prize - £500; 2nd Prize - £250; 3rd Prize - £100; plus 17 runners up published on website and future anthology. Entry fee: £5 per poem (£6 PayPal) / 50 lines maximum. Further details: Entry forms, rules, past winners, anthologies available from our website. Judge - Sally Spedding. Website: www.welshpoetry.co.uk Bridport Prize 2018 Poetry Closing date: 31st May 2018. Prizes: £5,000, £1,000, £500 and ten £50 highly commendeds. Dorset Award for best local winner or runner-up; anthology publication for all. Entry fee: £9 per poem. Looking for: poetry (up to 42 lines). Email: kate@bridportprize.org.uk  Website: www.bridportprize.org.uk Battered Moons Poetry Competition 2018 Closing date: 31st May 2018. On-line and postal entries accepted. Prizes: First prize, £700; second, £200; third, £100, plus four commendations of £25 each. Winning and commended poems will appear in the Battered Moons pamphlet and website. The 3 winners and 4 commended poets are invited to read their poems at the Poetry Swindon Festival on Saturday 6th October 2018. Entry fee: £5 for the first poem and £3.50 thereafter. Looking for: poems on any topic and style of up to 40 lines. Further details: Battered Moons Poetry Competition is open to all UK residents aged 18 or over. Guest judge Jacob Sam La- Rose and Cristina Navazo-Eguía Newton will both read all the poems. For further information visit http://batteredmoons.com or http://www.richardjefferies.org/battered-moons Frogmore Poetry Prize 2018 Closing date: 31st May 2018. Prizes: 250 guineas, 75 guineas, 50 guineas, plus subscriptions to The Frogmore Papers Entry fee: £3 per poem. Looking for: poems, any theme/style, up to 40 lines, for the contest's 30th year. Email: frogmorepress@gmail.com Website: www.frogmorepress.co.uk Wirral Festival of Firsts Open Poetry Competition Closing date: 1st June 2018. Prizes: £200, 2 x £50 and £50 for best Wirral poet. Entry fee: £4 per poem or £10 for 3 poems. Looking for: Poems up to 40 lines. https://wirralfestivaloffirsts.org.uk/open-poetry-competition- 2018/ George Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition Closing date: 15th June 2018. Prizes: £600, £300, £150, 2 x £75. Special Prize : £100 for a poem by a poet aged 18-25 not winning another prize. Entry fee: £3 per poem. Looking for: Poems by Suffolk poets Website: http://suffolkpoetrysociety.org.uk Creative Future Literary Awards Closing date: 18th June 2018. Prizes: £12,000 in development opportunities Free entry Looking for: Poetry up to 200 words, short fiction up to 300 words, by disadvantaged writers. Theme: Chemistry. Email: literary@creativefuture.org.uk Website: https://literary.creativefuture.org.uk/ Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition Closing date: 18th June 2018. Prizes: £200 for the winner, £100 for second and £50 for third place. Entry fee: £5. Theme: Open. Looking for: Poetry up to 60 lines maximum. Email address: tina@canterburyfestival.co.uk Website: https://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk/poet-of-the- year.aspx The McLellan Poetry Prize 2018 Closing date: 21st June 2018. Prizes: First prize of £1,500; Second prize £300; Third prize £150; 6 commendations of £25. Entry fee: £6, additional poems £5 each. Looking for: Poems up to 80 lines. Website: https://www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/poetry- competition Erewash Writers' Free Entry Writing Competition Closing date: 21st June 2018. Prizes: One poetry entry will be awarded £10. Winning entries will be published on the website. Free entry. Looking for: Writing on the theme of Summer Garden. Email: erewashwriterscomps@hotmail.co.uk https://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2018-writing- competition.html Wild Words Summer Solstice Writing Competition Closing date: 21st June 2018. Prizes: mentoring session, online publication Entry fee: £7. Looking for: prose or poetry, using as a title, one of the traditional names for the full moon (see website):maximum of 1,000 words, in prose or poetry. Email: hello@wildwords.org Website:http://www.wildwords.org/competition Wells Festival of Literature - Poetry Closing date: 30th June 2018. Prizes: Top prize - £750 Entry fee: £6.00. Further details: Maximum words: 40 lines. Website:http://www.wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/ Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition 2018 Closing date: 30th June 2018. Prizes: 1st Prize: €1,000; 2nd Prize; €500. Both winners will win a chapbook publication and 50 complimentary copies. The published chapbooks will be reviewed in Southword Jornal and elsewhere. Entry fee: €25 for each manuscript. Looking for: Manuscripts between 16 and 23 pages in length, in the English language and the sole work of the entrant with no pastiches, translations or 'versions'. The poems can be in verse or prose. Email: foolforpoetry@munsterlit.ie  Website: http://www.munsterlit.ie/Fool%20for%20Poetry.html Ledbury Poetry Festival Closing date: 12th July 2018. Prizes:First Prize: £1000 cash and a course at Ty Newydd, the National Writing Centre of Wales; Second Prize: £500; Third Prize: £250. Entry fee: £5, £3.50 each subsequent. Looking for: Poetry up to 40 lines. https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry- competition/ Wasafiri New Writing Prize Closing date: 13 July 2018. Prizes: £300 plus publication in Wasafiri Entry fee: £6 for single entry. Looking for: Poetry (up to five poems), up to 3,000 words. Email: wasafiri@qmul.ac.uk  Website: https://www.wasafiri.org/ Grist Competition 2018: Trouble & Strife: A Celebration of Protest Closing date: 15th July 2018. Prizes: £500, £250, £125. Entry fee: £5. Looking for: Poems up to 40 lines and short stories up to 5,000 words with a protest theme Email: grist@hud.ac.uk Website: http://mhm.hud.ac.ukl grist/ Sentinel Poetry Book Competition 2018 Closing Date: 31st July 2018. Prizes: Standard publishing contracts plus £300 (First), £200 (Second) and £100 (Third). Entry/Reading Fee: £25 per collection. Details: The Sentinel Poetry Book Competition 2018 is now accepting entries for full poetry collections by single authors. For the first stage of this competition, poets of all nationalities, living in any part of the world are invited to submit 20 pages of poetry in English Language, on any subject, in any style. Three collections will be published by SPM Publications in the second quarter of 2019. Each of the three winners will receive 20 complimentary copies of his or her collection. Judge: Noel Williams - author of Out of Breath and Point Me at the Stars. Enter online or download Entry Form for postal entries and see full terms and conditions at http://www.spmpublications.com/competitions/poetrybook201 8.html  Stroud Book Festival International Poetry Competition 2018 Closing date: 31st July 2018. Prizes: 1st: £500, 2nd: £250, 3rd: £100. Entry fee: £5, £3 additional poems. Looking for: Poetry up to 40 lines. Further details: Poetry judge: Adam Horovitz. Website: https://stroudbookfestival.org.uk/writing- competition/ Winchester Poetry Prize 2018 Closing date: 31st July 2018. Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250. Entry fee: £5 for first poem, £4 for subsequent poems. Looking for: Poems up to 40 lines. Further info: Judge: Liz Berry. Email: entries@winchesterpoetryfestival.org Website: http://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize Writers Bureau Limerick Competition Limericks Closing date: 31st July 2018. Prizes: £100 plus Writers Bureau course worth £374, 2 x £50 and membership of the Association of Freelance Writers. Entry fee: £4.00 per entry and then £1.00 for each subsquent limerick. Email: studentservices@writersbureau.com Website: www.wbcompetition.com Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Competition Closing date: 1st August 2018. Prizes: £200, £100 and £75. Entry fee: £5 per poem Looking for: Poetry up to 30 lines. Email: info@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Website: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk