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The first-place winner will receive $200, second place $100, third place $50 in Amazon gift cards. Poets may enter up to two original poems in each of the categories for which they qualify.
The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. [1] It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets.
It was launched in April 2011 during National Poetry Month. [1] The competition invites online submissions of poems in English from anywhere in the world, and is adjudicated by a board of 10 international editors, which changes every competition, but the winner is selected by a single judge - in 2011, it was former British Poet Laureate Andrew ...
The competition closes annually on the 31st of December. A shortlist of four candidates is announced in the spring, alongside eight commended poems. The shortlisted poems are published in The Irish Times online. The overall winner (€6,000) is announced at a special, online, award ceremony.
The words are lenses as winners of this month’s Cape Cod Times Poetry Contest capture images of the world around them. And what a world it is. “Wild Fennel” by Kathleen Casey.
2008 - Representing the Virgin Islands, Shawntay Henry became the 2008 National Champion; the first time the Virgin Islands participated. Ms. Henry was a 10th-grade student at the time. Her competition-winning poems included "Fredrick Douglas", by Robert Hayden. 2009 - More than 300,000 students competed in the nationwide competition in 2009.
What: An event from Austin Area Urban League complete with a slingshot showcase, children's activities, a comedy show, live music and free food. Black Makers Market When: June 15 from noon to 6 p.m.
Today, there are poetry slam competitions in a number of countries around the globe. Poetry Slam, Inc. used to sanction three major annual poetry competitions (for poets 18+) on a national and international scale: the National Poetry Slam (NPS), the individual World Poetry Slam (iWPS), and the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WoWPS).