Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition To celebrate, in partnership with the Poetry School, we’ve made three sets of discussion points (one for each of last year’s top three poems) available from our website. We hope that writing groups and classes might enjoy looking at the poems in more detail. Each year the competition throws three winning poets into the spotlight. “There was a surge of interest,” says 2011’s second prize winner...

 Sycamore Review is now accepting entries for the 2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry judged by Nikky Finney and open to previously unpublished works of poetry. Each entry may contain up to three poems (no more than six pages total). The author of the winning piece will be awarded $1,000 and publication in a 2013 issue of Sycamore Review. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to Sycamore Review. Entry fee is $15 and $5 for each additional...

The competition has two contests:  Magma Judge’s Prize (judged by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales and recipient of Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2010): Unpublished poems of 11 to 80 lines First prize £500 / second prize / £200 / third prize £100 Magma Editors’ Prize (judged by Magma Poetry editors): Unpublished poems of up to 10 lines First prize £500 / second prize / £200 / Plus 10 Special Mentions £10 each Winners will be invited...

I’d like to introduce our newly launched creative writing competition, Fiction Fast-Track: http://apostrophebooks.com/fictionfasttrack/  It would be great if you would consider featuring the competition on your listings page, and sharing the information with your readers.  Outline of the competition: Apostrophe Books are on the hunt for outstanding new fiction. We know it’s out there – it’s just that conventional publishers can no longer...

The Prize in Fiction is open to all writers, regardless of publication history. We seek submissions of novels and short story collections. The contest is blind; your name and contact information will not be seen by anyone reading your work until a winner has been selected. Stories and excerpts previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion in submissions; manuscripts previously published or self-published in their entirety are...