The East Riding Festival of Words poetry competition is free to enter for young people age 4-16. The theme is: My Reasons to be Cheerful. Deadline is 11.59pm UK time on Saturday 27 November 2021. Full info here.
Young people’s poetry competition
Foyle Young Poets Award 2020
Entries are now open for poets aged 11-17. Deadline 31 July 2020. Full details here.
YOUNG POETS – DEADLINE 28 FEBRUARY 2020!
Global Acts of Unity is hosting a poetry competition on the theme of ‘Unity’ for students age 11-18. Open to written poems of up to 400 words, or video of rap/performance poetry of up to 2 minutes. Sorry for the last-minute posting of this one. Full details here.
Warrington-based Poets Wanted
Writers living within a 25-mile radius of the English town of Warrington are invited to enter the Stockton Heath Writers Group free competition. All entries must be unpublished and ‘family friendly’. Send up to three poems of up to 40 lines each. Deadline is midnight on 1 September 2016. There is also a Young Writer of the Year prize for writers under the age of 18. More information here.
Betjeman Poetry Prize
This year’s Prize is on the theme of ‘Home’. It’s open to poets aged 10 to 13 who live in the UK or Ireland. Entry closes midnight on 31 July 2016. Full details: http://www.betjemanpoetryprize.co.uk/
SLAMbassadors UK Spoken Word Competition for Ages 12-18
Copied and pasted from the Poetry Library website:
SLAMbassadors UK, the national youth slam for 12-18 year olds is open for entries for its 2015 competition. Slam is the competitive art of spoken word performed before a loud and lively audience. Young people across the UK are invited to enter SLAMbassadors by filming themselves performing a poem or rap piece and uploading it to our SlamCam YouTube channel. The theme is identity – who you are, where you have come from, what you see around you and how it affects you and others, cultural identity, national identity, human identity. Prizes: Six acts will be chosen from across the UK to take part in an intensive, two-day masterclass with the spoken word artist Joelle Taylor. The winners work will be showcased at a live performance in central London alongside Joelle and a spoken word icon. The biggest prize however is the continual mentoring provided to the young artists by the Poetry Society, who work hard to introduce the emerging poets to the professional arena and open up the world of performance and publishing to them.
Entry Fee: £0
Contact: Find out more on the SLAM blog:http://slam.poetrysociety.org.uk/
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