Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 invites you to submit poetry “with a good emotional thwack.” The closing date for entries is 31st July 2023.
Entries cost £6 for first poem, £5 for subsequent poems.
A ‘Pay it Forward’ scheme introduced by 2020’s competition winner, Lewis Buxton, allows you to pay for an extra entry that will fund a submission by a poet who wouldn’t otherwise be able to enter the competition.
The judge is Zaffar Kunial, a prize-winning British poet. His debut collection, Us, was shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize. England’s Green, his latest collection, has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Ondaatje Prize.
Winchester Poetry Prizes
- First Prize: £1,000
- Second Prize: £500
- Third Prize: £250
Winning and commended poems will be published in a competition anthology.
The longlist will be announced in mid September and we will announce the winners live at Winchester Poetry Festival on Sunday 15th October 2023.
The best poem by a poet living in Hampshire will receive a prize kindly donated by Warren & Son.
Find full details here: www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize.
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