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Update
Change of deadline
Deadline extended for British Haiku Society Nobuyuki Yuasa Haibun Award from March 31 to September 30, probably.
April 23, not July 31, for York Writers’ Silver Jubilee Poetry Competition; seminar and prizegiving at Holgate Club, June 25. Send SAE: Hanson Place, Wigginton Road, York YO31 8FQ www.york-writers.org.uk
Discontinued
NAWG’s Judith Thwaite Memorial Trophy for Poetry (April 30)
Information as supplied; details may need verifying. Inclusion does not constitute recommendation.
Hoping to have a Welsh Special issue this Autumn (#134), so suggestions and/or examples welcome: poetry, cover artwork, features, interviews, reviews, news.
Arc, Canada’s National Poetry Magazine is holding its 10 International Poem of the Year Contest, with prizes of $1000, $750 and $500; publication in Winter 2005 issue. Fee of $21/4 Canadian dollars; includes 1 year’s subs; length: 100 lines. Deadline June 30. Poem of the Year Contest, PO Box 81060, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 1A0
[email protected] www.arcpoetry.ca
Here’s something to get you all going: contributions invited to an anthology of Best Sex Writing 2005, edited by Mitzi Szereto, to be published by Thunder’s Mouth Press (a division of Avalon Publishing, New York), autumn 2005. Work published between approximately summer 2004 through May 2005: book excerpts (fiction or non-fiction); short stories; essays; memoir; newspaper, magazine and journal articles; columns; journalism; blogs; lecture; speech, etc. You may also nominate another writer’s work. And no smut or porn.
A one-time honorarium will be paid. Deadline May 15. For full details, email:
[email protected]
And if you want to know how it’s done, Ms Szereto is running Literotica woskhops at The Old Grange, Shanklin, Isle of Wight; £385, May 23-27.
[email protected] www.thegrangebythesea.com
Contributions invited for The Book of Hopes and Dreams, an anthology of transcendent poetry, short stories and art. ‘All profits go to Spirit Aid: a humanitarian relief organisation dedicated to alleviating the suffering of children and young people whose lives have been devastated by war, poverty, genocide, ethnic cleansing and all forms of abuse.’ Deadline June 30. Full details on website.
[email protected] www.thunderburst.co.uk
1st Prize of $1000 and publication in The Boston Review for their 7th annual poetry contest. Fee: $15 US, $25 international. Length: ‘submit up to 5 poems, no more than 10 pages total.’ Judge: Cole Swenson. Deadline June 1. Boston Review, E53-407 MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] www.bostonreview.net
Matthew Sweeney is the sole adjudicator for the First Thursday International Poetry Competition. Prizes: £500, £250, £125; awards ceremony in Linghams Bookshop, Heswall at First Thursday event in October. Fee: £3; length: 40 lines. Deadline June 30. Peggy Poole, 36 Hilbre Court, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 3JU.
Light’s List of Literary Magazines 2005 has always been a must for any writer’s bookshelf: names, addresses, price, frequency, page count and a brief note of interests (e.g. ‘Traditional: poems to 30 lines, fiction to 2500 words, reviews, artwork’) of over 1400 UK, US, Canadian, Australasian, European, African and Asian small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English.
£4 inc 2nd class post. John Light, Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 1NY
[email protected] http://users.cooptel.net/photon.press
Free entry for the Poet’s Letter Online English Anthology of New Voices, to be published this summer. Online submission only. Send five poems with a small bio, name and address, pasted in the body of the email with subject line: Anthology Submissions. Deadline May 30.
[email protected] www.munayemmayenin.com
Talk about putting it delicately: ‘Somebody (this was positive feedback I think) suggested that The Quiet Feather looks like a 1970s porn mag. Can this be true? Does anyone know? None of us has actually seen one…’ Well, only one way to find out, but I’ll leave it to your discretion: Issue 4 due out April. www.thequietfeather.co.uk
Submissions either online or by post for The Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse, with prizes of $1,000, $400, $200, plus $100 x 4 Encouragement Awards. Fee: $5, and length, of course, according to form. Judge: John H. Reid.
Deadline June 30. Winning Writers, Attn: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant
Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060 www.winningwriters.com/margaret.htm
All submissions to the St Louis Poetry Center’s National Poetry Contest are considered for publication in MARGIE. And the Grand Prize is the considerable amount of $2000. Fee: $15, then $5 (3 entries max). Length: 60 lines. Judge: Maxime Kumin. Deadline May 31. 567 North and South Road #8, St Louis, MO63130; 660
543-8106 [email protected] www.stlouispoetrycenter.org
Flipped Eye Publishing, as part of the Remember Saro-Wiwa campaign is publishing an anthology of 100 poems to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his execution, November 10. Royalties to the Foundation. Fee and Length: no mention. Themes: ‘Ken Saro-Wiwa: the Legacy. Freedom of expression; resistance (literary and otherwise); imprisonment; non-violence; political oppression; leadership. Social and Ecological Justice. Minority rights; exile/displacement/refugees; war, peace, poverty, justice; equity; the death penalty; pollution; climate change; the right to appropriate/sustainable development; power (and the abuse thereof); capitalism and corporations.’
Full details on website. Deadline June 30. [email protected]
www.flippedeye.net/ Remember Saro-Wiwa www.kensarowiwa.org.uk
Sable LitMag http://www.sablelitmag.org/submissions1.html
AWA http://www.africanwritersabroad.org
10 short-listed writers for the Scriobh Poetry Competition, run in conjunction with Sligo’s Scríobh festival (in its 11th year), will be invited to participate in a workshop with Adjudicator Macdara Woods and to read their work during the festival. The winner also receives •500. Fee: •5(£4); •12(£10)/3. Length: 70 lines. Entry form may be downloaded. Deadline May 31. Model Arts and Niland Gallery, The Mall, Sligo.
[email protected] www.modelart.ie
Fine line up of prizes for The Times Stephen Spender Prize (for Translation): £500, £250, £100 (open); £250, £100, £50 (under 18s). Publication in The Times and in a commemorative booklet. Fee: £3: FREE for under 18s. Any length, from any language, classical or modern; must send 300 word commentary on choice of poem and any difficulties in translation. Judges: Susan Bassnett, Alan Jenkins, Daniel Weissbort, Ewald Osers. Entrants must be British residents and aged less than 30 on December 31, 2005. No entries by email. Deadline May 27. Stephen Spender Memorial
Trust, 20 Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2NR
[email protected] www.stephenspender.org
Sam Smith is organising the West Country Book Fair with financial assistance from Exeter City Council and the UK Arts Council: Bridge Gallery, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, Devon, 10am-5pm Saturday 23rd April 23. Free entry + free prize
draw - win books to value of £30. http://members.aol.com/smithsssj/index.html
John J Whitmarsh died last year from cancer and during his illness, wrote what he often referred to as his ‘opium poems’, for example, Counting Days, which begins: Listen: / Numbered days are better than no days at all, / And luck is just being here / When so many others have gone away.
‘Walking With Shadows’, £7.50 from [email protected]
Update
Change of deadline
Deadline extended for British Haiku Society Nobuyuki Yuasa Haibun Award from March 31 to September 30, probably.
April 23, not July 31, for York Writers’ Silver Jubilee Poetry Competition; seminar and prizegiving at Holgate Club, June 25. Send SAE: Hanson Place, Wigginton Road, York YO31 8FQ www.york-writers.org.uk
Discontinued
NAWG’s Judith Thwaite Memorial Trophy for Poetry (April 30)
Information as supplied; details may need verifying. Inclusion does not constitute recommendation.
Hoping to have a Welsh Special issue this Autumn (#134), so suggestions and/or examples welcome: poetry, cover artwork, features, interviews, reviews, news.
Arc, Canada’s National Poetry Magazine is holding its 10 International Poem of the Year Contest, with prizes of $1000, $750 and $500; publication in Winter 2005 issue. Fee of $21/4 Canadian dollars; includes 1 year’s subs; length: 100 lines. Deadline June 30. Poem of the Year Contest, PO Box 81060, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1P 1A0
[email protected] www.arcpoetry.ca
Here’s something to get you all going: contributions invited to an anthology of Best Sex Writing 2005, edited by Mitzi Szereto, to be published by Thunder’s Mouth Press (a division of Avalon Publishing, New York), autumn 2005. Work published between approximately summer 2004 through May 2005: book excerpts (fiction or non-fiction); short stories; essays; memoir; newspaper, magazine and journal articles; columns; journalism; blogs; lecture; speech, etc. You may also nominate another writer’s work. And no smut or porn.
A one-time honorarium will be paid. Deadline May 15. For full details, email:
[email protected]
And if you want to know how it’s done, Ms Szereto is running Literotica woskhops at The Old Grange, Shanklin, Isle of Wight; £385, May 23-27.
[email protected] www.thegrangebythesea.com
Contributions invited for The Book of Hopes and Dreams, an anthology of transcendent poetry, short stories and art. ‘All profits go to Spirit Aid: a humanitarian relief organisation dedicated to alleviating the suffering of children and young people whose lives have been devastated by war, poverty, genocide, ethnic cleansing and all forms of abuse.’ Deadline June 30. Full details on website.
[email protected] www.thunderburst.co.uk
1st Prize of $1000 and publication in The Boston Review for their 7th annual poetry contest. Fee: $15 US, $25 international. Length: ‘submit up to 5 poems, no more than 10 pages total.’ Judge: Cole Swenson. Deadline June 1. Boston Review, E53-407 MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] www.bostonreview.net
Matthew Sweeney is the sole adjudicator for the First Thursday International Poetry Competition. Prizes: £500, £250, £125; awards ceremony in Linghams Bookshop, Heswall at First Thursday event in October. Fee: £3; length: 40 lines. Deadline June 30. Peggy Poole, 36 Hilbre Court, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 3JU.
Light’s List of Literary Magazines 2005 has always been a must for any writer’s bookshelf: names, addresses, price, frequency, page count and a brief note of interests (e.g. ‘Traditional: poems to 30 lines, fiction to 2500 words, reviews, artwork’) of over 1400 UK, US, Canadian, Australasian, European, African and Asian small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English.
£4 inc 2nd class post. John Light, Photon Press, 37 The Meadows, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, TD15 1NY
[email protected] http://users.cooptel.net/photon.press
Free entry for the Poet’s Letter Online English Anthology of New Voices, to be published this summer. Online submission only. Send five poems with a small bio, name and address, pasted in the body of the email with subject line: Anthology Submissions. Deadline May 30.
[email protected] www.munayemmayenin.com
Talk about putting it delicately: ‘Somebody (this was positive feedback I think) suggested that The Quiet Feather looks like a 1970s porn mag. Can this be true? Does anyone know? None of us has actually seen one…’ Well, only one way to find out, but I’ll leave it to your discretion: Issue 4 due out April. www.thequietfeather.co.uk
Submissions either online or by post for The Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse, with prizes of $1,000, $400, $200, plus $100 x 4 Encouragement Awards. Fee: $5, and length, of course, according to form. Judge: John H. Reid.
Deadline June 30. Winning Writers, Attn: Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant
Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060 www.winningwriters.com/margaret.htm
All submissions to the St Louis Poetry Center’s National Poetry Contest are considered for publication in MARGIE. And the Grand Prize is the considerable amount of $2000. Fee: $15, then $5 (3 entries max). Length: 60 lines. Judge: Maxime Kumin. Deadline May 31. 567 North and South Road #8, St Louis, MO63130; 660
543-8106 [email protected] www.stlouispoetrycenter.org
Flipped Eye Publishing, as part of the Remember Saro-Wiwa campaign is publishing an anthology of 100 poems to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his execution, November 10. Royalties to the Foundation. Fee and Length: no mention. Themes: ‘Ken Saro-Wiwa: the Legacy. Freedom of expression; resistance (literary and otherwise); imprisonment; non-violence; political oppression; leadership. Social and Ecological Justice. Minority rights; exile/displacement/refugees; war, peace, poverty, justice; equity; the death penalty; pollution; climate change; the right to appropriate/sustainable development; power (and the abuse thereof); capitalism and corporations.’
Full details on website. Deadline June 30. [email protected]
www.flippedeye.net/ Remember Saro-Wiwa www.kensarowiwa.org.uk
Sable LitMag http://www.sablelitmag.org/submissions1.html
AWA http://www.africanwritersabroad.org
10 short-listed writers for the Scriobh Poetry Competition, run in conjunction with Sligo’s Scríobh festival (in its 11th year), will be invited to participate in a workshop with Adjudicator Macdara Woods and to read their work during the festival. The winner also receives •500. Fee: •5(£4); •12(£10)/3. Length: 70 lines. Entry form may be downloaded. Deadline May 31. Model Arts and Niland Gallery, The Mall, Sligo.
[email protected] www.modelart.ie
Fine line up of prizes for The Times Stephen Spender Prize (for Translation): £500, £250, £100 (open); £250, £100, £50 (under 18s). Publication in The Times and in a commemorative booklet. Fee: £3: FREE for under 18s. Any length, from any language, classical or modern; must send 300 word commentary on choice of poem and any difficulties in translation. Judges: Susan Bassnett, Alan Jenkins, Daniel Weissbort, Ewald Osers. Entrants must be British residents and aged less than 30 on December 31, 2005. No entries by email. Deadline May 27. Stephen Spender Memorial
Trust, 20 Kimbolton Road, Bedford MK40 2NR
[email protected] www.stephenspender.org
Sam Smith is organising the West Country Book Fair with financial assistance from Exeter City Council and the UK Arts Council: Bridge Gallery, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, Devon, 10am-5pm Saturday 23rd April 23. Free entry + free prize
draw - win books to value of £30. http://members.aol.com/smithsssj/index.html
John J Whitmarsh died last year from cancer and during his illness, wrote what he often referred to as his ‘opium poems’, for example, Counting Days, which begins: Listen: / Numbered days are better than no days at all, / And luck is just being here / When so many others have gone away.
‘Walking With Shadows’, £7.50 from [email protected]
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- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
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- Floating Bear, The
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- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
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- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The