The Moth Poetry Prize 2024
With €111,000 in prize money, The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for unpublished poems. The prize is open to anyone, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries worldwide.
The four shortlisted poems appear in the Irish Timesonline, and the overall winner will be announced in the spring of 2025.
The prize is judged anonymously by a single poet.
THE JUDGE
Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections:Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost,EphemeronandMidden Witch(forthcoming). All three of her published collections have been shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize, and her books have won the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
THE PRIZES
1st prize €6,000, 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000 8 commended poets will each receive €250 There is no line limit. The entry fee is €15 per poem.You can enter as many poems as you like.
CLOSING DATE
31 December 2024
