York Literature Festival, in association with YorkMix, launches its first-ever poetry competition.

First prize: £100 Second Prize: £60 Third Prize: £30. Four commended poets will each win £15. The competition will be judged by award-winning poet Carole Bromley, and prizes will be awarded on Monday, March 18th at the Black Swan pub in York. Check out the rules here

Buxton Poetry Competition 2013 is now open!

Our theme in 2013 is History and Heritage. Poems could reflect your own history, tell the story of a person or event in history or be a much wider interpretation of this challenging theme. Download an entry pack and read winning poems from 2012 here

Indent issue 2

Last weekend for submissions to Indent issue 2; the annual literary print journal based at Staffordshire University’s Creative Writing Department, Stoke-on-Trent. “…we hope for high quality, international examples ( no, specimens) of volcanic prose & scintillating poetry that push the boundaries of what-is-what. Hybrid pieces: very welcome, as too are personal essays, heteroglossic texts that cannot be pinned down in any way.  WE are looking for NEW literatures that challenge the notion of genre. Hybrid and mash-up, blended & cognitive, alert & alternative. ” Go to http://deviljazz.wordpress.com/category/indent/ for more details

Butcher’s Dog

Publishers of poems from writers with distinct voices, go to http://www.butchersdogmagazine.com/2012/10/home.html  for more details. Submit up

• to 3 unpublished poems in the body of an email to submissions@butchersdogmagazine.com Submissions
• welcomed from all writers living in the UK particularly those with a connection to Northern England.
• Next deadline: 1 March 2013 (Issue 2)