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Women Poets' Prize

Writing Contest

poetry

video

audio

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Highlights

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  • Response time: 2 months after close
  • Prizes: £1000
  • Fee: -
  • Last run: -
  • Reading blind: -

Poetry

Max lines: 40

Max pieces: 3

3 pages max

Video

Max pieces: 1

Up to 3 minutes in length containing no more than three poems.

Audio

Max pieces: 1

Up to 3 minutes in length containing no more than three poems.

Additional info

Poems previously published in magazines/journals, either in print or online, will be accepted, but please indicate clearly if your poem has been previously published in one of these formats.

Three winners will receive: £1000 cash prize each, one-to-one and group resilience coaching with Shamshad Khan, one-to-one mentoring via The Literary Consultancy’s Chapter and Verse scheme, introduction to film-poetry and digital practices with Bath Spa University, performance coaching with national spoken word charity Apples & Snakes, introduction to poetry festivals and presses with Verve Press, craft workshops with the Poetry School, history of UK Poetry workshop in-house with Faber & Faber, bookbinding workshop with CityLit.

Open to all women poets, emerging or established, who are resident in the UK/Northern Ireland and aged 18 and up.

Submission calls

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supports creatively ambitious practitioners – poets who are making or are capable of making a significant contribution to the UK poetry landscape. It is open to all women poets, emerging or established, who are resident in the UK/Northern Ireland and aged 18 and up.

www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org