Homes & Antiques

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For two years this was the home of a prolific 19th-century Romantic poet. Today, it’s a museum. The darling of English literature is said to have penned one of his odes beneath a plum tree in the garden. He fell in love with the girl next door and be

Poets & Writers

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Fight of the Century: Writers Ref lect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Avid Reader Press, January 2020), edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, honors the centennial of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with a collection of essays

Writing Magazine

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Segora International Writing Competitions 2021 has categories for poetry, short stories, vignettes and one-act plays. The annual creative writing contest is run by Poetry Prose and Plays. • Poetry: Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. Th

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry London Prize is inviting international entries. The first prize is £5,000. The second prize is £2,000 and the third, £1,000. This year’s judge is poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky. The winning poems will be published by Poetry London in pr

Writing Magazine

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There’s still – just – time to enter The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 The London Magazine is the UK’s oldest literary journal, and through its Poetry Prize looks for new voices to publish. The first prize is £500 and there are second and third p

Poets & Writers

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In his second poetry collection, Together and by Ourselves, published in April by Copper Canyon Press, Alex Dimitrov questions the myths and realities of loneliness and intimacy. The poems are tonally diverse—aphoristic in one moment, wondering in an

Country Life

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Marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wordsworth (1770–1850), this second edition of Stephen Gill's masterful biography (first published in 1989) has been fully revised and updated with the latest scholarship to make it the definitive study o

Writing Magazine

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East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition is inviting entries. This year’s theme is ‘my companion, my best friend.’ The competition, which will be judged by a panel of published Yorkshire poets led by James Nash, is for original, unpublished p

India Today

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He is too shy to tell that his lyrics have become so popular that even young Pakistanis are humming them and uploading them on YouTube. Most questions put to this 27-year-old, who recently received the prestigious Yuva Sangeet Natak Akademi for his

Writing Magazine

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The Poetry Society has announced that the world’s biggest competition for poets aged 11 to 17, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, is open for entries for the 2020 competition. Winners’ prizes include mentoring, Arvon courses, Poetry Society mem

The Paris Review

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In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. ©Ellis Rosen Dearest Poets,

Writing Magazine

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Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2020 is open for entries. There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines. The first prize is £500, and there are seco

Poets & Writers

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“A poem can exist in a specific cultural or emotional moment, but it can also sustain and be revisited over and over again,” says poet Adam Deutsch, the publisher of Cooper Dillon Books (www.cooperdillon.com), a ten-year-old press dedicated to “the v

Poets & Writers

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the closest men become is when they are covered in blood or nothing at all—from “Naked” HOW IT BEGAN: It started with the body. The learning of desire prompted many of the poems in the early versions of the manuscript. My life shifted when I moved ba

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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As the world went into lockdown earlier this year, the Centre for Place Writing invited some of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers, writers and artists, alongside emergent new voices, to examine what ‘place’ meant to them. Embracing poetry, essay, w

Writing Magazine

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Glass Lyre is an independent literary press which publishes ‘poetry collections, chapbooks, select short and flash fiction, and the occasional anthology’. The editorial team feel that their books should be ‘fine literature to rejuvenate the spirit, f

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym

Writing Magazine

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Short Circuit is an unusual short story and poetry market which delivers its content in dispensers in busy public places. They want to ‘inspire, delight, move, and challenge readers’ with quick reads to distract them on their commute or while visitin

Writing Magazine

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The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The international competition invites entries from poets anywhere in the world. There is a first prize of £200, a second prize of £100 and a third prize of £50. There is a

Writing Magazine

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Wells Festival of Literature is inviting entries for its 2020 creative writing competitions. The competitions are in the following categories: • Open Poetry. The first prize is £1,000, and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Enter poe

The American Poetry Review

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selected by Nick Flynn “Likenesses is an origin myth, in that it attempts to create the world by naming it. But it’s too late in the game to imagine that whatever is named could simply be, without at the same time being—becoming—something else. Or ma

The Christian Science Monitor

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Feathered friends I live in Redondo Beach, a suburban town on Santa Monica Bay. Thus, my little murder of crows is not as grand as the one in Murr Brewster’s April 1 Home Forum essay, “We are observed.” Nevertheless, the “neighbors” make themselves

Writing Magazine

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The Winchester Poetry Prize 2020 is open for entries. The international competition invites entries of original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second and third prizes of £500 and £250. Winning and commended

Writing Magazine

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Agenda is a British poetry journal run by poets for poets. The editors opened to submissions on 1 January and they are seeking submissions of poetry in all its forms. Read the guidelines carefully, especially about formatting. The poetry editor disli

Writing Magazine

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• Twist short story competition (see p29) For short stories, 1,500-1,700 words, with a twist; entry fee £6, £4 for subscribers; closing date, 15 July. Ref Code: Jun20/Twist • Creative non-fiction competition (see p29) For creative non-fiction, 1,500-

Writing Magazine

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It might be a dark day – either the weather or some situation causing this. Either way, you have that urge to escape the darkness and write a poem. But although you feel a need to do this perhaps you don’t know what to write about? I have often felt

Writing Magazine

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Fiction, creative non fiction and poetry on the theme of ‘Industrial Revolution’ are invited for the Zoetic Press NonBinary Review, an award winning quarterly literary journal and you have the freedom to explore every facet of that theme in any way t

Writing Magazine

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Fosseway Writers are inviting entries on the theme of ‘Promise’ for their poetry competition. The judge is Martin Grey and the prizes are £50, £30 and £20, with a special £10 prize for the best local poet. Enter poems up to 40 lines. The entry is £5

Writing Magazine

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The Plough 2021 Poetry Prize is open for entries This year the annual competition from Plough Arts Centre will be judged by Roger The competition is for original, unpublished poetry up to forty lines. The first prize is £1,000 and there are second an

Literary Hub

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In this monthly column for Lit Hub, I’ve been sharing the experiences of high school English teachers across the country—the joys, the struggles, what keeps us coming back to the classroom—trying to get to the heart of what Andre Dubus would write on