TORCH SciPo 2021 junior science poetry competition’s subject this year is ‘Bird Song’.
The judge will be David Morley.
The prizes are book tokens – yay! If you’d like to enter, the details are here.
Poetry Competition for Under 18s!
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Competition for Young Poets!
The Magdalena Young Poets’ Prize (poems on any subject) is open to young people 16-25.
First prize of £100!
Details here.
Write a Poem and Win a School Visit from Lisa Thompson
To celebrate the upcoming publication of Lisa Thompson’s debut Barrington Stoke title, Owen and the Soldier, they are launching a competition encouraging primary-school-age children to pen a poem!
Details on the Barrington Stoke Website, here.
Young Poets’ Network Poetry Challenge
Young Poets Network have set another poetry competition!
Could you be one of the Bletchley set? Poet So Mayer takes goes into the Bletchley Park archives and invites young poets everywhere to try a number of cleverly coded writing exercises. Write in response to one or more of these, or simply write a poem inspired by the work at Bletchley Park and email Young Poets Network with your work for the chance to be published in an anthology!
Details here.
Hurry to Enter the 5th Annual Timothy Corsellis Prize for poetry!
There’s only a week left to do so!
Timothy Corsellis was a young poet and pilot killed in 1941. The Prize was set up in his name, with the support of his family, to encourage more people to read the powerful but lesser-known poets of the Second World War.
Choose one or more poet/s and write a poem in response to their life and/or poetry. It can be anything about their life or work, whatever inspires you.
The deadline for entries is Sunday 16 September 2018.
All the details are here.
Lost Words Competition
Are you between 11-18 and a budding writer? The University and Young Norfolk Arts Festival are holding a competition inspired by the beautiful Lost Words book by artist Jackie Morris and writer Robert Macfarlane.
Competition details here.
Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2018
The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is for a single unpublished poem written by an adult for children. Anyone can enter the competition – from anywhere in the world – as long as the poem is original.
The entry fee is €12 per poem, and you can enter as many poems as you like.
CLOSING DATE 31 MARCH 2018
This year the judge is children’s poet Chrissie Gittins.
Details here: Caterpillar Poetry Prize
A Christmas Poetry Competition on PoetryZone!
Roger Stevens’ excellent PoetryZone has a new competition – Write a Poem for Christmas.
It can be a funny, sad or serious poem. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, send a poem about the holidays, or about winter.
Poems can be long, short, rhyming or non-rhyming, and in any style. You may enter as many poems as you like. But remember, Roger is looking for originality.
Three winners aged 7 and under will win copies of Joshua Seigal’s Little Lemur Laughing Three winners aged 8 or over will win copies of Joshua Seigal’s I Don’t Like Poetry.
All the details here on PoetryZone. Get writing!
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