Okay, peeps. Upcoming competitions and submissions. As usual, only those with online entries outside Ireland included.NCLA Water Poetry Competition - Newcastle Local Authority Competition - Theme Water - Jan 13th
Abridged looking for submissions on the theme of Silence - Jan 14th
Versal (NL based online journal) looking for submissions (apparently they have a 'reading fee') - Jan 15th
Strokestown Poetry Prize / Strokestown Gaelic Prize / Strokestown Percy French Prize - Jan 20th
Wenlock Poetry Competition - wouldn't you love to live in a place called Much Wenlock? - Jan 23rd
Trocaire / Poetry Ireland - Imagine a just and free world? - Jan 27th
Hippocrates Prize - large prizes for poems with a medical theme - Jan 31st
Stinging Fly - submissions for summer issue by Jan 31st, later issues by March 31st - note new editor Dave Lordan (not that it'll make much difference in my case)
Erma Bombeck Humorous Verse - US based, bound to get a huge entry, diminishing chances of winning - Feb 14th
Ward Wood Publishing poetry competition - Feb 14th
I really meant to get something ready for Versal this time. 15th a bit close for some magnum opus now.
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of the Wenlock one best. Shropshire is lovely and it's the home of the Modern Olympics. Huzzah! Except boo! to Lord Coe: I'm still struggling for tickets. Not that I'll be going on about that much this year.