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June 30 @ Poetry Teignmouth Graham Burchell Award For Southwest (UK) Poets Open to entries from the following counties: Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset – and Bristol www.poetryteignmouth.com/competition-2025

PROVERSE PRIZE FOR UNPUBLISHED FICTION PROVERSE PRIZE FOR UNPUBLISHED FICTION NON-FICTION, OR POETRY For unpublished book-length work; over 18s. 1st Prize: £800 OR US$1,200 OR HK$10,000; and publication. Supplementary (publication) prize(s) may be awarded. Possible invite to read on youtube.com/@ProversePublishing / at Proverse events Fee: £37.20. Prose: 75,000-100,000 words; poetry: 4,000-5,000 words. Full rules, details and entry form obtainable from:  proversepublishing.com/ Closing date: 30 June.

The Kipling Society’s John McGivering Literary Competition 2025 Who hath desired the Sea – the sight of salt water unbounded? The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded? The sleek-barrelled swell before storm – grey, foamless, enormous and growing? Stark calm on the lap of the Line – or the crazy-eyed hurricane blowing? His Sea in no showing the same – his Sea and the same ’neath all showing?

in Kudos Competitions | Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2025 Prizes: £800, £400, £200, and the Ware Sonnet Prize (£200) Anthology for winners and commended poets (£4.00, post free: pre-ordered).

Don’t forget to enter Wirral Poetry Festival’s 15th Open Poetry Competition – deadline for entries 30th May. Poems on any subject, of not more than 40 lines, in English,Open prizes adjudicated by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura;  Wirral Prizes by Pauline Rowe.Open prizes: 1st prize £250, 4 £25 runner-up prizes.

May 7 The Wigtown Poetry Prizes Online entry only; over 16s Wigtown International Prize: £1500; Runner-up: £200. Fee: £10 Wigtown Scots Prize: £500; Runner-up: £200. Fee: £8 Wigtown Scottish Gaelic Prize: £500; Runner-up: £200. Fee: £8 Dumfries & Galloway Fresh Voice Award. Fee: £10 Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize: 30 copies of a pamphlet of your work.

in Kudos Featured Competitions | FEDERATION OF WRITERS SCOTLAND VERNAL EQUINOX COMPETITION 2025 Five categories, poetry (any number of poems, no more than 40 lines each), short stories (any number, between 501 and 2000 words each), flash fiction/mini-story (any number, up to 500 words), Scottish Gaelic and Scots (poetry, line limit as above). Prizes in each category: 1st prize £100, 2nd prize £25, 3rd prize £10 Brian Whittingham Memorial Prize £50. Open entry.

Show: Dear Evan Hansen Location: Chester Storyhouse On tour until July 5 Date: Tuesday, 18th March – Saturday, 22nd March Time: 7.30 Running Time: 150 minutes Age Rating: 12+ Book: Steven Levenson Music & Lyrics: Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Director: Adam Penford Set, Costume & Co-Video Designer: Morgan Large Musical Director: Michael Bradley Choreographer: Carrie-Anne Ingrouille Sound Designer: Tom Marshall Lighting Designer: Matt Daw What a tangled web we weave, but ultimately it can be...

Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition 2025 Judge: Kit Fan 40 lines maximum per poem Open to anyone aged 16 or over, from anywhere in the world Deadline 31 Jan 2025 Seven Prizes from £1000 to £50 plus publication in annual ‘Folio’ anthology Entry £5 per poem; 3 or more poems £4 each Details atwww.kentandsussexpoetry.com

Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize Word Limit: 4,000 Closes: 31 January 2025 Results: 1 April 2025; Anthology published: July 2025 Entry Fees: €20; €14 subsequent entries (Optional Critique €56) Prizes: 1st: €1000 2nd & 3rd: Writing Course (online) + € 300; Best 10 memoirs published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2025 Judge: Ted Simon Online writing courses in short story, flash fiction, poetry and memoir; and full range of editorial services for writers, see www.fishpublishing.com