MSLEXIA WOMEN’S POETRY COMPETITION 2014
We welcome poems of any length, on all subjects – as long as they’re written by women.
1st prize: £2,000
(plus two optional extras*: a week’s writing retreat at Cove Park and a mentoring session with the Editor of premier magazine Poetry Review.
2nd prize: £400
3rd prize £200
17 other finalists will each win £25
SPECIAL NEW PRIZE: £1,000
for the best poem by a previously unpublished woman poet.
All winning poems will be published in Mslexia.
Judge: Wendy Cope
Award-winning poet Wendy Cope, OBE is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has four collections of poetry published, including 2011’s Family Values. She judged the Man Booker Prize in 2007, and has kindly agreed to return to us to judge our 2014 competition.
Closing date: 16 June 2014
Please read the competition rules before entering.
If you’re happy with everything enter the competition.
If you’ve written a collection of poems, why not enter them in our pamphlet competition? Find out more
Struggling for inspiration? We have 30 poetry writing exercises available, to get your creative juices flowing. Find them allhere
2013 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Congratulations to Angela Readman, winner of the 2013 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition! And to the other winners and runners up.
1st Prize: The Book of Tides by Angela Readman
2nd Prize: Rattus Rattus by Mel Pryor
3rd Prize: The guide loses one of his group in Martinique by Caroline Price
And the runners-up: Bridget Auchmuty, Sharon Black, Jemma Borg, Maureen Boyle, Elizabeth Burns, Fiona Cartwright, Shirley A Cook (formerly Elmokadem), Barbara Cumbers, Kerry Darbishire, Yael Geva, Tess Jolly, RE Matthews, Jacqueline Mezec, Abigail Morley, Brigid Murray, Lesley Saunders and Jennifer Varney,
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The 2013 Competition 1st prize was £2,000 plus two optional extras: A week’s writing retreat at Cove Park and a mentoring session with the editor of Poetry Review
2nd prize was £400, 3rd prize was £200. 17 runners up win £25 each. All winning poems are published in issue 59 of Mslexia, published in September 2013. Click here to order.
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