Campo House, This years’ other shortlisted poets were: Emily Rose Galvin, Edward Green, Louise Morrisson and Millie Norman. This was so exciting to read and I’d expect a major full collection from Odubanjo in the near future. In our pursuit to recognize today's best poets, we want to celebrate one outstanding piece of poetry, OPEN to all poets, with a $5000 award and publication. Takeaway is a vivid and powerful collection. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The judge is Sean O'Brien, winner of both the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize, awarded for his 2007 collection, The Drowned Book. Entrants are invited to submit short collections of twelve pages of poems. A New Poets Prize winners reading will he held at The Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester in Autumn 2020, and the four winning pamphlets will be published in June 2021. The International Book & Pamphlet Competition, Submit your Entry to the 2021 New Poets Prize. Expansive but precise lines and stanzas give Woodhead the space to explore the lives and scenes she depicts. Poems by all four winners of the 2020 New Poets Prize will feature in the forthcoming issue of The North magazine, issue 65, which is out this Winter. S1 2EG,

This year’s judge is Liz Berry. Stay in the loop and register for email updates about events, competitions and all things poetry. Four outstanding collections will be selected to receive a year of support from The Poetry Business: a publisher and writer development agency with a strong reputation for discovering, developing and publishing outstanding new poets. I did a lot of shuffling and reshuffling after my initial read-throughs.

A number of free entries are available for those who cannot afford the entry fee. The Frontier staff will select the winners and finalists. This years’ other shortlisted poets …

DEADLINE: last post on Monday 1st March 2021, or midnight on Monday 1st March 2021 for online entrants. Would you like it featured on this page? Everything in the worlds she conjures seems to be falling apart, but this heady, Technicolor mix is held together by precisely controlled image-making and a gripping delivery. The New Voice in Poetry Prize is a brand new competition for emerging spoken word poets and performers who are yet to publish a full collection of work.
The winner will have their work recorded and published alongside a collection of established poets from across the UK, as well as receiving a £250 prize. It’s such a skill to navigate these waters with such attentiveness; defiant, ecstatic powers of observation transfiguring the ordinary with wit and self-awareness. Lauren volunteers at the children’s literary charity, Grimm and Co, and will be reading English and French at Oxford University in October. The New Voice in Poetry Prize is a brand new competition for emerging spoken word poets and performers who are yet to publish a full collection of work. The Poetry Business is delighted to announce that the 2021 New Poets Prize judged by Kim Moore is now open for entries. She’s performed widely at open mics and live events including the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival 2018, and has been a guest on Ian McMillan’s The Verb on Radio 3.

– Luke Kennard. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Newcastle Young Writers Prize, and was highly commended in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition.

Each spring, we accept program and magazine nominations and then hold an open competition. So many of the images here are breathtaking and will really stay with me. He lectures at the University of Birmingham. Compelling, experimental, passionate – we were blown away.’. The Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition has categories for Adults (18+), Young People (Ages 12 to 17) and Children (under 12). We launched the prize at the beginning of May 2020 and received almost 400 submissions from all corners of the UK. Judges this year are Tom Chivers (Director, Penned in the Margins), Zena Edwards (poet and arts activist project maker) and Ross Sutherland (poet and podcaster).
Holt draws the reader’s fascination and engagement from such unexpected quarters through the most judicious deployment of detail: eye-lash curlers, dual carriageways, real-life encounters with Coronation Street actors.

The relevant ages means age on the date of submission.

54 Campo Lane, In 2018 she was a winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year, highly commended in the Young Northern Writers Award, and 2nd place winner in the Ledbury Poetry Competition (young people’s category). ‘Drake Equations’ is fantastic.

Stay in the loop, sign up for email updatesabout new items, events and competitions, Southbank Centre, London Georgie has been published in two Hive anthologies. from 11am to 8pm, Southbank Centre is a charity registered in England and Wales No.298909. Royal Festival Hall (Level 5), Southbank Centre, LondonOpen Tuesday - Sunday from 11am to 8pm. Georgie Woodhead is part of the Hive Poetry Collective.

She won a Northern Writers Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010. She has been published in two Hive anthologies, was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2019 and highly commended in the Young Northern Writers Award in the same year. The author of five collections of poetry, his debut The Solex Brothers received an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and his second, The Harbour Beyond the Movie was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007 making him, at that point, the youngest writer ever to have been nominated. Uncompromising in its depiction of brutalities without ever sacrificing the humanity and compassion of the poet’s vision. The New Voice in Poetry Prize is part of The Soundscape Poetry Project and runs from 3 April 2020 to the 1 May 2020.

In every collection I found something (often many things) I wanted to read aloud to people, to recognise, to celebrate. I revisited every book, quoted line after brilliant line on my increasingly thick pile of notecards.

In the end there were four that stood out to me for their distinctive voices and sensibilities, startling images and musicality; the thrilling sense that these were the opening notes of what will no doubt develop into a significant body of work over many years – something I would hope for every entrant whose work I was lucky enough to read.”, Deep, funny, thought-provoking – a powerful evocation of culture and family with the most assured phrasing and imagery and confident formal innovation. Sheffield,

UK, The Result Is What You See Today: Poems About Running.

The New Poets Prize is a pamphlet competition for writers between the ages of 17 and 24 (inclusive). His work has been published in: Ambit, White Review, Wildness, The Interpreter’s House, Pigs, and elsewhere.

– Luke Kennard. These were all significant collections of work, showcasing such a variety of poetic talent, voice and vision, conceived and attentively curated into substantial, titled manuscripts. back to top The shortlist and winner will be announced in June 2020. I could go on at length about every poem here. If so, please get in touch. The York Poetry Prize The York Poetry Prize returns for its eighth year. The juxtapositions are superior and considered and I was captivated by the shrewd, clever voice throughout. His pamphlet, While I Yet Live, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2019. His most recent collection, Cain, was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. Please note that the published winning collections will be extended versions of the winning manuscripts (approximately 20-24 pages of poems). In 2019 she was the winner of the BBC Young Writer of The Year and was Young Poet in Residence at Sheaf Poetry Festival. Click here to apply.

To enter, you will need to upload two recorded audio poems.

She will have her work recorded and published as part of The Soundscape Poetry Project and receives a £250 prize. This prize will run alongside the renowned International Book & Pamphlet Competition organized by The Poetry Business, which has now been established for 35 years. Information on the five shortlisted poets can be found here and all ten of their submitted audio poems can be streamed here, We are delighted to announce that the winner of the New Voice in Poetry Prize 2020 is.

Gboyega Odubanjo is a British-Nigerian poet born and raised in East London. Other prizes include publication in The North magazine and a masterclass with the competition judge followed by a prize winners’ reading. She lives in Manchester. Her pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award.

The NEW VOICE IN POETRY PRIZE is a new competition for emerging spoken word poets and performers who are yet to publish a full collection of work. If you have significant potential, interesting ideas, a relevant message and skillful execution, this is the competition for you. Poems must be no longer than 40 lines.

The book is featured in the University of Virginia Press calalogue. Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist.

Tuesday - Sunday Ten finalists will also receive $100 each and all winners will earn publication with Frontier Poetry. The 2020 National Poetry Competition is open for entries until midnight 31 October 2020. To enter, you will need to upload two recorded audio poems.

It’s open to 18 to 35 year-olds based in the UK.

She recently completed her doctorate in poetry and everyday sexism and is currently working on her second collection. Lucy Holt is a freelance copywriter and MA student at The Royal College of Art, London.

We launched the prize at the beginning of May 2020 and received almost 400 submissions from all corners of the UK. – Luke Kennard. PRIZES: Pamphlet publication under the New Poets List imprint; a masterclass with the competition judge; a launch reading; publication in the North magazine; a place on an Arvon residential in 2021/22 for two of the winners and more. Her poetry and non-fiction has appeared in The Observer, 3:AM Magazine, The Oxford Review of Books and Ache Magazine. *A number of free entries are available for those who cannot afford the entry fee. Click the button below to submit your entry online.

‘Harry Collins’ is such a vivid, poignant and angry character study and the title poem alone was enough to convince me that I was in the presence of a significant and urgent new voice. Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith is a Rotherham based poet and a member of Hive South Yorkshire and the Writing Squad. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of 50 poems from emerging writers. The 2021 New Poets Prize will open for entries on 1st October 2020. All four New Poets Prize winners will also have their winning collection published under The New Poets List, our imprint dedicated to discovering, mentoring, and publishing young and emerging poets. Poems can be voice-only or voice accompanied by sound/music.

This page attracts thousands of visits a month. 31decAll Day The Society of Classical Poets 2021 Poetry Competition Organised by the Society of Classical Poets based in New York International Entry Fee: … Entrants are invited to submit short collections of twelve pages of poems.