DEADLINE: April 30, 2013 GENRE: Poetry DETAILS: The Tapestry of Bronze is sponsoring a series of international poetry contests to celebrate Greek and Roman mythology and the Olympian gods. The subject of the current contest is Hephaestus (also known as Vulcan), the God of the Forge. 30 lines max. There are two age ranges under 18 and adult. PRIZE: $50 in each category URL:...

The 2013 Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open! We welcome entries from all writers anywhere in the world! Categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing. Prizes: £300 for each category plus winners will be published in Wasafiri Entry fees: UK Sterling £6.00 if entering one category, £10.00 for two and £15.00 for three categories Simply fill in the entry form and post it with your fee to: ‘Wasafiri New Writing Prize’ Wasafiri The Open...

Now an established highlight of the Canterbury Festival calendar, Monday 11 March will see the launch of the 2013 Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition. The Festival is on the lookout for today’s best writers from all across UK and beyond, and is encouraging them to submit a poem or series of poems to the competition and perhaps be crowned this year’s winner. With over 150 entries last year, the Festival is encouraging budding poets...

SUBMIT Poets: read about the Heteronymicon challenge here. It closes April 30. The best will run in Issue 15, which will come out in the summer. Submissions are currently open. Open reading periods are held from the beginning of March through May and from the beginning of September through end of November. There is no reading fee during open reading periods. We hold two contests annually, the Winter Writers Contest Summer 2013, from June 1,...

The Poets and Players Poetry Competition 2013 with the Whitworth Prize The inaugural poetry competition run by Poets and Players, one of Manchester’s leading organisers of poetry and music events. JUDGE: JACOB POLLEY Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. He is the author of three acclaimed books of poems, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006) and The Havocs (2012), all published by Picador, UK. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002,...

Sponsored by TNQ editor Kim Jernigan and family in celebration of the man who sparked their love of poetry, this contest is for poems written in response to an occasion, personal or public-poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make an occasion of something or simply mark one. We are interested in light verse and in verse more sober, in the whole spectrum of tones and occasions. One of Nick’s own poems,...