Poetry London Competition 2017

Publish Date: Mar 07, 2017

Deadline: May 02, 2017

About the competition 

Entry to Poetry London’s 2017 competition is now open, and we are delighted to announce Liz Berry as this year’s judge.

Liz Berry’s debut collection, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014.

Black Country was chosen as a book of the year by The GuardianThe TelegraphThe MailThe Big Issue and The Morning Star. Liz’s poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio, television and recorded for the Poetry Archive. She has been a judge for major prizes including The Forward Prizes for Poetry and Foyle Young Poets.

The closing date of the competition is 2 May 2017. Winners will be notified by 16 July 2017; the first, second and third prizewinners will be published in the Autumn 2017 issue of Poetry London and on our website. The prizes will be awarded at our Autumn launch reading in London in September.

“Liz Berry is an extraordinary poet: passionate, precise, moving and deeply real. The voice and heat of the Black Country are here, the old tenderness and the complex strands of identity, the humour and the music.”A.L. KENNEDY

Competition Rules

1. Entries must be in English, your own unaided work, and not a translation of another poet. Entries must not have been previously published or self-published, in print or online, or have won a prize in another competition. The maximum length is 80 lines. 

2. Your name and address must not appear on the poems entered, nor any other marks that could identify you.

3. Entries must be typed or written clearly in black on white A4 paper or us letter size.

4. Each poem must start on a new page. They will be judged separately on their own merits. 

5. You may enter as many poems as you wish, accompanied by the appropriate entry fee. For Poetry London subscribers the entry fee is £3 per poem; for non-subscribers £7. You are also eligible for the lower entry fee if you take out a subscription now: see form for details.

 

6. The closing date is 2 May 2017. Winners will be notified by 16 July 2017; the first, second and third prizewinners will be published in the Autumn 2017 issue of Poetry London and on the magazine’s website. The prizes will be awarded at our Autumn launch reading in London in September (date to be confirmed). Copyright remains with the authors, but we reserve the right to publish the winning poems.

7. The results will be published on our website by 16 July 2017.

8. We will not enter into any correspondence about entries, or make changes to entries received. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted. The judge’s decision is final. Your entry in the competition means you accept these rules. We will abide by good practice in the running of this competition, but cannot be held responsible for circumstances beyond our control. Should the named judge be unable to proceed, we aim to find an alternative judge of equivalent standing as a poet. Prizes may be withheld or altered if we receive no outstanding poems, or insufficient entries.

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