This year's Slipstream Poets Open Poetry Competition is now open to entries.

The judge is Chris Hardy.

Prizes:
1st - £300
2nd - £150
3rd - £75

All winning poems will be published on the Slipstream website. An additional prize of £50 and the award of the Chanctonbury Cup will be given to the winner of the West Sussex entries.

Entries must be no longer than 60 lines.

See  Competition – Slipstream Poets (slipstream-poets.co.uk)

The 11th annual poetry competition run by Poets & Players, one of Manchester’s leading organisers of poetry and music events. Open to unpublished poems of no more than 40 lines.

Prizes
First: £600
Second: £200
Third Prize: £100

Winning poems will be published on the Poets & Players website, and winners will be invited to read at the prizegiving ceremony.

Judge Philip Gross

See  Competition 2023: Judge Philip Gross | Poets & Players (poetsandplayers.co)

Established in 2010 in memory of Jane Elizabeth Martin of Girton College, Cambridge. Open to UK-based poets aged between 18 and 30. Entries should consist of a maximum of two poems, and should amount to no more than two sides of A4 in total.

Prizes
First: £700
Second: £300

Judges include
Rebecca Watts & Adam Crothers

See  Jane Martin Poetry Prize | Girton College (cam.ac.uk)

The Gingko Prize 2022 is now open for submissions of poetry that explore the topic of nature and/or the climate crisis. Submissions must be written in the English language and can be any length and form.

There are three prizes of £5,000 (1st), £2000 (2nd), and £1000 (3rd), plus an additional £500 prize in partnership with AONB for 'Best poem of UK Landscape'.

Judges: Linda Gregerson, Seán Hewitt, and Karen McCarthy Woolf

See How To Enter – Ginkgo Prize

Open to poems on the theme of 'Being born in a different time and background'. Channel your time-travelling fantasies by regressing to the past or visiting an era only imagined in science fiction. Entrants should be UK-based and should submit no more than three poems. Minimum length for entries: 16 lines (no upper limit).

First prize  £500

See  Competition – Arts Centre Group

Annual prize (now in its 37th year) run by respected independent publisher.

Prizes
First: 250 guineas
Second: 75 guineas
Third: 50 guineas

Judge
Helena Nelson

See  Frogmore Poetry Prize 2023 – submission guidelines – The Frogmore Press

The inagural Artemesia Arts International Poetry Competition is now open for entries.

Poems must be written in English and can be on any theme in any form or style.

This year's judges are Roger McGough and Sheila Schofield Large.

Prizes:
- 100 euros for the overall winner
- 50 euros each for two runners-up
- plus publication by Mosaïque Press in the Artemesia Arts anthology 2023

See Poetry Competition – Artemesia Arts (artemesia-arts.com)

The Red Shed Open Poetry Competition 2023 is now open for entries, judged by Sarah Wimbush.

Prizes: £100, £50, £20, with an additional £25 Wakefield Postcode prize.

Open to previously unpublished poems of 50 lines or less, on any theme.

See https://www.currockpress.com/redshedpoetrycomp.html - Currock Press

Open to poems of 40 lines max, on any theme. As well as the main prizes, there is an extra prize for the best entry from a poet living in the NG22–25 postcodes.

Prizes
First: £50
Second: £30
Third: £20
Local: £10

Judge  Leanne Moden

See  Competitions – Fosseway Writers (wordpress.com)

The South Downs Poetry Festival 2023, in conjunction with Binsted Arts, is seeking to award the Binsted Prize 2023 for poems on any theme. This competition is open to all poets aged over 16 years. Winning and commended poets are invited to the prize- giving evening on June 10, 2023, and their poems will also be published in a small competition anthology.

Prizes:
1st Prize - £300
2nd Prize - £150
3rd Prize - £50

Judge:Wendy Klein

See   » 2023 Poetry Competition (sdpf.org.uk)

Long-running competition, open to unpublished poems of 30 lines max.

Prizes
First: £600
Second: £300
Third: £100

See Open Competition 2023 | Ver Poets

Regular competition run by by Crewe District Writers' Circle. Open to poems on any theme (40 lines max).

Prizes
First: £100
Second: £50
Third: £25

Judge  Paul Francis

See  Poetry Competition 2021 (webstarts.com)