Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition

There's still time to enter this year's Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition, which closes on August 17th. The judge this year is Carcanet poet David Morley, and as with last year, he will read all the entries.

There's a £600 prize for the winner, £300 for the runner-up, and £50 each for five Commended entries, while as always there's an additional prize of £200 for Gloucestershire residents only (this year it includes South Gloucestershire.

All the proceeds of the competition will help fund Buzzwords' regular poetry gatherings in Cheltenham.

More information on how to enter, plus previous year's winners, can be found at here. 

Competition time

It's getting very close to deadline time on a couple of excellent poetry competitions. The Essex Poetry Festival 12th Open Competition has a first prize of £1,000, and is judged by Pascale Petit - you've only got a few days left, as the deadline is July 30th.


Meanwhile, the Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition (all money raised goes to the excellent Buzzwords reading/open mic series in Cheltenham) has a prize of £600, and is judged by Ann Drysdale. The deadline has just been extended until August 14th, so there's still time to polish up that submission.