Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2024 is currently open for submissions. Closing Date 30th November 2024 (Midnight GMT)
Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2024
PRIZES
- 1st £1000
- 2nd £300
- 3rd £200
- Five Commended Prizes of £50
- Norfolk Prize £100
- For the best poem from a permanent Norfolk resident not winning another prize.
Other Available Competitions
- One Teen Story Contest 2025 | Deadline: December 2, 2024
- Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest | Deadline: April 1, 2025
- Lyric Magazine College Poetry Contest 2024 | Deadline: December 31, 2024
- Story Unlikely Annual Short Story Contest 2025 | Deadline:
- The Four Quartets Prize 2024 | Deadline: December 31, 2024
- Tower Poetry Competition 2025 | Deadline: February 20, 2025
- Gemini Magazine Poetry Open 2025 | Deadline: January 2, 2025
- Tadpole Press Writing Contest 2024 | November 30, 2024
- Happiful Poetry Prize 2025 | Deadline: November 30, 2025
- Colorado Poetry Prize 2024 | Deadline: January 14, 2025
- Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2024 | Deadline: November 30, 2024
- Women's Poetry Competition 2024 | Deadline: December 9, 2024
ENTRY FEE
£5 per poem; or £13 for 3 poems & £4 per poem thereafter.
Who can enter:
The prize is open to any poet in the world who is over 18 years of age writing in English.
Competition Rules
- Closing date for receipt of entries: 30th November 2024 (Midnight GMT).
- The maximum length for each poem is 40 lines excluding the title. Breaks between stanzas do not count towards the total.
- Café Writers committee members and their families are not eligible to enter.
- Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any website or recorded (poems read at open mics are OK as long as they were not recorded). No posthumous or AI generated entries please.
- We regret that postal entries cannot be returned.
- Entries must be in English.
- Each poem should be sent as a separate PDF document if entering by email. The name of each document should be the name of the poem it contains and have no identifying marks other than the title on either the page or in the document name.
- Font should be Times New Roman (or similar) 12 point. Pages should not be numbered, there should be no colour, pictures or borders.
- For postal entries download and print off the entry form here as a PDF
- Online entries – Pay online using Paypal. Your covering email should include: your name and address, and the titles of your poems. The title of your email should be your name and Paypal transaction number eg John Keats 7PO79029E497164P. Send your poems to: cafewriterscompetition[at]gmail[dot]com
- Concessionary Entries: for poets on a low household income please send your poems as a separate entry, in a separate email, to any paid entries you might send. Attach the document/s to an email with your name and the word ‘Concession’ in the subject box.
- No corrections can be made after receipt, nor fees refunded.
- Worldwide copyright of poems remains with the author, but Café Writers will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning poems on its website and in competition publicity.
- The Norfolk Prize is awarded to a permanent Norfolk resident, for a poem not winning another prize.
- The judge’s decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.
- Entry implies acceptance of the rules. Failure to comply with entry requirements will result in disqualification.
Receipt: Cafe Writers auto acknowledges all email entries, if you don’t see acknowledgement please check your spam filter – adding our email address to your contacts should prevent this happening. Postal entries can enclose a stamped addressed postcard marked ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Results: Winners will be notified by email by 28th February 2025. Results will be published on our website, social media and mailing lists. If you would like to receive an email with the results before they are shared on Social Media, please sign up to our Newsletter by using this link: http://eepurl.com/dtgYrj
The Zoom Prizewinning event will take place on Zoom in March 2025.
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