arranged in closing date order
Dorset Prize
Colorado Prize for Poetry
Closing date: 14th January 2021.
Prizes: $2,000 and publication
Entry fee: $28
Looking for: Poetry collections, 48-100 pages.
Website: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu
Calibre Essay Prize
Closing date: 15th January 2021.
Prize money: $7,500 in total.
Entry fee: $25 or $15 for subscriber.
Looking for: Essays, 2,000-5,000 words
Website:
https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes-
programs/calibre-prize/current-prize
Magma Poetry Competition
Closing date: 15th January 2020
Prizes: up to 50 lines, £1,000, £300, £150, up to 10
lines, £1,000, £300 and ten £15 special mentions.
Looking for: Poems on any subject, two categories, 11-
50 lines, and up to 10 lines.
Entry fee: £5, £4 for second, £3 for third and each
subsequent
Website: www.magmapoetry.com/competition
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition
(January 2021)
Closing Date: 31st January 2021.
Prizes: £250 (First), £125 (Second), £75 (Third), £30 x
3 (High commendation), £20 x 3 (Commendation) and
3 x Sentinel Literary Quarterly paperback (Special
mention).
Looking for: This competition is for original, previously
unpublished poems in English Language, on any
subject, in any style, up to 50 lines long. Poets of all
nationalities living in any part of the world are eligible
to enter.
Entry fees: £5/1, £8/2, £10/3, £12/4, £14/5, £16/7
and £22/10 poems.
Judge: Oz Hardwick.
Enter online or download Entry Form for postal entries.
Website:
https://sentinelquarterly.com/competitions/poetry/inde
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Ó Bhéal International Five Words Poetry
Competition
Closing date: 31st January 2021.
Prizes: A prize of 750 euros will be awarded to the
winner, 500 euros for second place and 250 euros for
third place and if available the three winners will be
invited to read at Ó Bhéal's anniversary event on in
April (an additional travel fee of 100 euro plus B&B
accommodation will be provided for this.
Entry Fee: €5.
Looking for: At around noon each Tuesday (GMT), from
mid-April until late January, five words are posted on
the Ó Bhéal Five Words competition page. Entrants
have one week to compose and submit poems that
include all five words given for the week.
Other info: See website.
Website: http://www.obheal.ie/blog/five-words-poetry-
competition/
Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize 2021.
Closing date: 7th March 2021.
Total Prizes worth over £5000.
Looking for: Poets are asked to write on the 2021
theme of ‘Writ in Water’. Entries should be no more
than 30 lines in length and must fit onto a single A4
page.
Entry fee: £10 per poem.
Website: https://keats-
shelley.org/prizes/keats_shelley_prize_2021
Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
Closing date: 30th April 2021.
Prizes: 1st Prize - £600; 2nd Prize - £300; Third Prize -
£150.
Looking for: Poems that are no longer than 50 lines.
Any number of poems may be submitted.
Entry fee: £4 per poem.
Other info: Poems should be in Englsh and not have
been awarded a prize in any other competition. See
website for other Ts & Cs.
Website: http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/
San Francisco Writers Conference
Closing date: 18th September, 2021.
Prizes: $250, 2x$100; consultations
Entry fee: $30 per entry.
Looking for: Adult Fiction; Adult Nonfiction (including
memoir; Children’s/YA Books* Poetry.
Website: https://www.sfwriters.org/2021-writing-
contest-overview/
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