Poetry Competitions

Please let me know about any poetry competitions not mentioned here. These details are abbreviated, please contact those running the competition for full details (at the website or postal address supplied) Good luck!

Competition	Closing Date	Details
Poetry.com	Ongoing	submit one poem per month, free. Prize money: poetry.com
Poetry.com	Ongoing	Daily competition, using given words. Prize money. poetry.com
poetry.com	Ongoing	Daily Haiku competition. Win your haiku on a mousemat! poetry.com
Coast to Coast	25th of every month	Up to 50 lines, £3 per poem, monthly prize money. Ouse Valley Poetry, 91 St John's Road,Waterloo, Liverpool. L22 9QD. UK.
Peace and Freedom	1st July 2002	Up to 32 lines, £2 per poem. nawg.co.uk/peace.html
Poetry Life	27th July	Up to 80 lines, £3 per poem, freespace.virgin.net/poetry.life/
Anything Goes	30th July 2002	Any length subject, 50p per poem, Send with an SAE to Writers' Brew Club, PO Box 241, Oakengates, TF2 9XZ
Writers' Bureau	31st July 2002	up to 40 lines, £5 per entry. writersbureau.com
Yorkshire Open	31st July 2002	Up to 80 lines. £3.50 per poem. 32, Spey Bank, Acomb Park, York, YO24 2UZ.
Elsewhere- back of the postcard	1st August 2002	All forms of writing : Contact Emma Hewitt for a postcard: info@spreadtheword.org.uk
First Writer Online International	1st August 2002	Up to 30 lines, reading fee is £2.50. Prizes. firstwriter.com/competitions/
Telegraph International	16th August 2002	Any length, £5 or $10 each. avronfoundation.org
Preston Writers' Guild	31st August 2002	Up to 32 lines, £2 per poem. 24, Oak Tree Avenue, Leyland, Lancs. PR52PJ.
Wrekin Writers' Limericks	31st August 2002	Prizes. Entry form from: 8 Ragleth Road, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 7BN
Nottingham Open County	13th September 2002	Prizes. £3 per poem. Up to 40 lines. The competition Secretary, 11 Orkney Close, Stenson Fields, Derbyshire DE24 3LW
How Do I love thee? (Poetry Life)	28th September 2002	Up to 80 lines. £3 per entry. poetrysociety.org.uk
National Poetry (Independent newspaper)	31st October 2002	Up to 40 lines, £5 per poem. poetrysociety.org.uk
Trewithen Poetry Prize	31st October 2002	Prizes. Rural theme. £3 first poem, then £2. Trewithen Poetry pPrize, Chy-An-Dour, Trewithen Moor, Stithians, Truro, Cornwall. TR3 7DU.
Samaritans	9th November 2002	Prizes. £2 per poem. 20, Smallbrook Walk, Crewe, Cheshire. CW2 6LX.
The David St John Charitable Trust	10th November	Prizes. Up to 32 lines. £2.50 entry minimum. Must begin with Wordsworth's opening line: 'Earth hath not anything to show more fair.' DSJCT. PO Box 6055, Nairn IV12 4YB.
Peace and Freedom	25th November 2002	Up to 32 lines on the topic of war. nawg.co.uk/mygun.html

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