Open to all poets across the world over the age of 16, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.
Entry fee €15 per poem
Prize:
First Prize €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Circle of Misse in France, Second Prize €500 and Third Prize €250
If you have written a poem you think would appeal to 7-11-year olds, then why not enter the The Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2024? The prize is open to anyone over 16, and the poem can be on any subject. Read more
Open to all poets over 16 for an unpublished poem.
Entry fee €15 per poem and you can enter as many poems as you like
Prize:
1st prize €6,000, plus three runner-up prizes of €1,000 and eight commended poets will each receive €250
The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. The prize is open to anyone, as long as the poem is previously unpublished, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries worldwide.The prize is for an unpublished poem, and entrants (over 16) are welcome from anywhere in the world. Read more
Open to anyone 18 or over from all over the world to enter an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines.
Entry fee £8 for first entry, £5 for unlimited subsequent entries
Prize:
First Prize: £5,000, Second Prize £2,000 and Third Prize £1,000, Commendations £200
The National Poetry CompetitionAnnual poetry prize run by the UK-based Poetry Society established in 1978; accepts entries from all over the world; over 10,000 poems submitted each year
The 2023 National Poetry Competition is one of the world's most prestigious prizes for an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines, open to anyone internationally who is 18 or over. It is judged anonymously and has been won by celebrated poets and by newcomers.
Open internationally to those aged 16 or over.
Entry fee for both prizes £18
Prize:
Two £10,000 prizes are awarded: the Manchester Poetry Prize for best portfolio of poems and the Manchester Fiction Prize for best short story
The Manchester Writing Competitions offer the UK's biggest literary awards for unpublished work, offered by the country's most successful writing school. The Competition was established in 2008 by Carol Ann Duffy (UK Poet Laureate 2009-19) and has awarded more than £220,000 to writers. Read more
All poets writing in English are eligible, no matter where they live.
Entry fee £6 per poem
Prize:
First prize £1,000 cash and a week's poetry course at Arvon, Second Prize £500 and Third prize £250
The Ledbury Poetry Competition has opened for entries, with a closing date of 10 July. All poets writing in English are eligible, no matter where they live. Read more
Open to all poets from across the world over the age of 18.
Entry fee: first submission £7 then £4 for each additional poem
Prize:
First prize £5,000, second prize £2,000 and third prize £1,000
The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry is a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes.
The first prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000 and third prize is £1,000, with an additional £500 prize for the ‘Best Poem of Landscape' sponsored by the AONB family. Read more
Open to all poets over 16 for an unpublished poem.
Entry fee €15 per poem
Prize:
1st prize €6,000, plus three runner-up prizes of €1,000 and eight commended poets will each receive €250
The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. The prize is open to anyone, as long as the poem is previously unpublished, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries worldwide.The prize is for an unpublished poem, and entrants (over 16) are welcome from anywhere in the world. Read more
Open to anyone 18 or over from all over the world to enter an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines.
Entry fee £7 for first entry, £5 for unlimited subsequent entries
Prize:
First Prize: £5,000, Second Prize £2,000 and Third Prize £1,000, Commendations £200
The National Poetry CompetitionAnnual poetry prize run by the UK-based Poetry Society established in 1978; accepts entries from all over the world; over 10,000 poems submitted each year
The 2022 National Poetry Competition is one of the world's most prestigious prizes for an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines, open to anyone internationally who is 18 or over. It is judged anonymously and has been won by celebrated poets and by newcomers.
Poets from anywhere in the world aged 11-17 years
No entry fee
Prize:
Top 15 winners get publication in the Foyle Young Poets 2022 Anthology
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is one of the biggest and most established prizes for young people aged 11 - 17 in the world. If you're an aspiring writer, enter your poems to the competition at foyleyoungpoets.org by 31 July 2022. It's totally free to enter and entrants can submit as many poems of any length as they like, on any theme. Read more
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In the third in a series on the implications of AI for publishing, Nadim Sadek argues that effective advertising is now feasible for everyone, and for all kinds of titles
A publishing friend of mine recently told me about a sales report they'd received from a major retailer in which some of their books had zero sales. It turned out that there had been plenty of sales, however-they just all went to counterfeiters. In case you think this is an outlier, it's not. Counterfeiting is a serious, nontrivial problem facing the industry.
If you read the recently unsealed materials from the federal antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, you'll see why the company wanted to keep them under wraps. According to the unredacted notes from one meeting, Jeff Bezos directed his team to stuff more ads into search results, even if it meant accepting more ads internally categorized as irrelevant to what users were looking for. Read more
The U.K. Publishers Association (PA) was established in 1896 and is a cornerstone of the British publishing industry, working with a diverse array of companies to promote innovation, collaboration, and commercial success. Read more
With English as a shared language, there is a natural relationship between the American and British publishing industries. Most of the world's top publishing companies, be they conglomerates or independent publishers, have operations in each country, typically in New York City and London. Literary traffic travels both ways across the Atlantic.
The UK is experiencing a boom in book clubs, according to new data from event listing companies.
Book club listings on the ticketing site Eventbrite increased by 350% between 2019 and 2023 - a "much stronger" growth than the overall increase in UK-based listings over the same period. Between 2022 and 2023 alone, book club listings on the site rose by 41%. Read more
"We don't understand the consequences of AI with regards to copyright," Brazil's Karine Gonçalves Pansa, president of the International Publishers Association (IPA), said, when asked to name the most important issues facing publishing right now. "We can say, very easily, that our content is being used, without permission, and without license, by AI."