![]() Welshpool Poetry Festival Competition – Poetry – closes 6 May (submit online) Tin House – Poetry or Fiction Manuscripts, theme: Food or Place – open 6-7 May (submit online) International Dylan Thomas Day: Love the Words – Poetry, theme: Dream – closes 6 May (submit online) Oxford’s Twin Cities Poetry Competition – Poetry, theme: Oxford’s Twin Cities – closes 5 May (submit online) ![]() If you appreciate the monthly list and would like to support it, please consider making a small Paypal donation and/or share this post on your own blog or social media pages. Whatever you’re up to with your writing this month - drafting, honing, editing or submitting - I wish you every luck and success. He has gathered his advice together in a new e-book On Poetry, which has just been launched and is available for a ridiculously reasonable £6.00 for the next week (RRP £20) – I’ve already nabbed a copy and highly recommend! Roger has a fabulous Instagram where he generously shares his down-to-earth and thoroughly relatable thoughts on writing. Eliot Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize for A Portable Paradise. One of the biggest and most prestigious writing competitions in the UK, The Bridport Prize closes at the end of this month, and this year the poetry award is judged by UK poet Roger Robinson, winner of T.S. We’ve just finished up with Gods & Monsters | 30 Days of Writing the Greek Myths and National Poetry Writing Month and it’s been a fantastic month hobnobbing with the gods atop Mount Olympus! I’ll be announcing new workshops coming up in May and June very soon so keep an eye out for that. Hurrah! A new month and a new list of over 150 poetry competitions, literary journal submissions and writing opportunities open or with deadlines in May 2023! If you would like to learn more or submit to Tinderbox, please visit their website at. They do not accept previously published work, and they do not accept multiple submissions. They accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that authors immediately withdraw work published elsewhere. Tinderbox accepts submissions online, not via post or email. They view the cover letter not as a formality, but an important introduction to the poet, a context within which to read the work. The editors at Tinderbox encourage poets to include a cover letter with their submission. Submissions should be six pages or fewer. Poets may submit three to four pieces of any kind of poetry. ![]() Submitting poets can expect a response within about three months. They accept a wide range of submissions-free verse and formal poetry, lyric essays, flash forms, sequences of fragments, lyric dramas, and more. While they only publish poetry, Tinderbox seeks to expand our idea of what a poem can be. ![]() Tinderbox is published monthly, and each issue features work by around fifteen poets. To get a sense of their style, you can read past issues online. They prefer profundity that arises out of nitty-gritty life itself, poetry that is lived and living. Tinderbox publishes poetry in all forms and styles, and they showcase a broad range of voices and experiences. ![]() To promote the writers they publish, they nominate poets for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net Anthology. Tinderbox Poetry Journal, an online journal that’s fee-free in the months the seasons change-March, June, September, and December-is seeking poetry from both emerging and established writers. ![]()
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