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Here are 7 upcoming poetry contests with cash prizes.
Good luck, talented poets!
Comstock Review – Muriel Craft Bailey Award
Annual poetry contest with a prize of $1,000 and publication in Comstock Review.
Entry fee is $8.
Submssion Deadline is July 1st 2016.
Submit poems here: http://www.comstockreview.org/annual-contest
Cultural Center of Cape Cod – Poetry Competition
Annual poetry contest with a cash prize of $1,000.
Submit up to three poems that have not won a national competition, totaling no more than five pages.
Entry free is $15.
Submission Deadline is June 20th, 2016.
Submit your poetry through their website.
Coffee-House Poetry – Troubadour International Poetry Prize
First place wins a cash prize of £5,000 and second-place receives £1,000. Both first place and second place get
When I saw you,
In the coffin,
I thought,
I didn’t know you.
It was a shell of you,
Not the real you.
Your body lays at rest now,
Do you remember the night
We walked through town
Starry night
Romantic
Dreamy night
Mystery whispering in our ears
As we walked past
Medieval buildings of stone
And chiseled faces of statues
Looking at us across centuries
I desperately wanted to touch you
To take you into my arms
As we neared the river
“Don’t move,” you tell me with an air of command.
My mind struggles, my arms above my head,
held there simply by the strength of my…well, his will.
I feel a soft breeze in through the window,
the dark scent of rain fills my mind, excites me.
I glance down my body, to see you at the foot of the bed,
you’ll appreciate the pale flesh and white silk panties
just as you requested, all else bare to your gaze.
At the look in your eyes, a strangled sound escapes my lips.
Your hands find my ankles, holding them like manacles,
the heat of your touch searing through my skin,
tightening places that you haven’t even touched yet.
You are so strong, I can feel your strength as you hold me,
your fingers tightening around my ankles, holding me as you’d have me,
your hands pulling my legs apart, farther and farther,
The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry runs an annual poetry contest for published poetry books. The poetry competition is open to both Canadian and International poets and poetry translators. Prizes include two cash prizes of $65,000 CAD (approximately $46,800).
To be eligible to enter this contest, your poetry book must be at least 48 pages long and have been published between January 1 and December 31.
This poetry contest is free to enter!
Submission Deadline:
Dreams of unknown melodies become my companions
When the moon sits upon her throne, my love
Far away, more gravitating
Are the quivering stars in the heavens
Up above
My life floats within the sun in a blissful perfect peace
Blazing there, high above the tallest trees
In lines, my soul can name
This affordable writing retreat for fiction writers is set in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains. What better place to clear one’s mind and open up to creative inspiration? This writing retreat includes writing workshops, live critiques and
Fake.
Such a damning adjective.
And until now, I hadn’t realized
just how much it hurts.
What else would you have me do,
sweetheart?
All I’m doing
is trying,
buying time,
and avoiding awkward areas,
distressing situations.
You’ve got me rocking broken in the corner.
And you don’t even know.
Or seem to care.
Sitting on the other side of this fence…
Writer’s Digest is running the 16th Annual short fiction story contest.
The last chance to submit your very short story is January 15th 2016. Entry free cost $25.
Prizes include $3,000 in cash, getting published in Writer’s Digest magazine, and a paid trip to their Writer’s Digest Conference!
Ode to a meadowlark
Ah, rising sun, kiss morning’s dew
Chill breath of night away thou chase
A sprite from trees there yonder flew
But why flies he away in haste?
As I through meadows lonely pace
Crimson orb, paint sky with red
On fields, again, new day doth break
Yet from love’s loss my heart has bled
And Sorrow, joy of life does take
As o’er these fields my way I make
And I have suffered now so long
