As well as submitting poems to magazines and journals, it’s a good idea to enter your work in competitions. With that in mind, I did a quick search online today. Here is a list from The Hunter Writers Centre. Note that the submission deadline for the first one is 31 March, 2021. So get those entries in now.
W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia
Adelaide Plains Poets Inc Poetry Competition – Poetic Pause blogspot
National Henry Lawson Society Poetry Competition
The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competition
Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards
Scribes Writers – “Poetic Licence”
Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition
Ipswich Poetry Feast International Poetry Writing Competition
Australian Bush Poetry Events Calendar including latest The Kembla Flame
Thank you for sharing this comprehensive list Libby… I’m sure to have a try at some…
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thank you, Ivor for your thank you. glad you appreciated the competition information 🙂
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Wow, Libby, that was a big list. Didn’t realise how much there is. I will test some and read their
rules. Thank you for info. 😊.
Miriam
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that’s great, Delphini that you found the competition information useful. terrific 🙂
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Thank you for all this information. Another poetry competition was launched yesterday https://christianwriters.org.uk/competitions/
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thank you Sue.
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Might only be of interest to people in the UK.
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