There’s something that happens more and more on Twitter that makes me feel slightly queasy. But I also hesitate to say this, because it might…
Poetry
Tag: poetry competitions
I’ve noticed there are a number of poetry competitions about to close – January seems to be a competition battleground. I’ve talked about the issue of…
*UPDATED 8-6-17* to include the Prole Pamphlet Competition, deadline 30th June. Windows It’s been a while since I checked submissions windows. I realise a few…
Do you send poems off to competitions? If not, why not? OK we all know it’s ‘a lottery’. Nevertheless most of us would admit it’s exciting to actually win…
I have a much longer ‘end of year’ post lined up but for now I thought I’d post a quick subs update for this year.…
Windows Just checking which magazines have re-opened their windows (must’ve been hot in there) and have found the following: The Stinging Fly is open until…
The first two and a half weeks of January have been a bit of a poetry whirl (in the sense of lots of events) and…
Ah! Poetry competitions. Love ’em, hate ’em? It helps when you win something occasionally, admit it. Sadly, the stats are against us, but would we…
Perhaps that could be a poem title? Should I send it to the Poetry London comp, or is more of a Poetry on the Lake sort of title? Could I get some kind of double meaning out of ‘game’ in order to make it a nature poem and would it appeal to Simon Armitage when judging the Rialto comp?
(click on the title to read more… 602 words)
… to actually make it onto a prizewinners list (The New Writer Poetry Prize 2012). The poem in question was one that had been through…