The National Poetry Competition 2024 is now open. If you’ve got that special poem you wrote during a quiet winter evening, the advent of better weather (I won’t say good weather) or maybe something that inspired you in the wider world, no is your chance to shine.
The competition will be judged by: John McAuliffe, Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester; Poet and essayist Romalyn Ante; Stephen Sexton, teacher at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Belfast. Among previous winners are Jo Shapcott, Carol Ann Duffy and Tony Harrison.
There are cash prizes and the top three poems will be published in The Poetry Review. Competition closes on 31 October – so plenty of time to write.
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