Mslexia Women’s Poetry and Pamphlet Competitions 2017
Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2017
Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2017 is for poems of any length and in any style.
Judge: Sinéad Morrissey
1st Prize: £2,000 plus two optional extras: A mentoring session with Amy Wack (poetry editor at Seren BooksClick for Seren Books Publishers References listing), and a week's writing retreat at Cove Park.
PLUS Special prize: £500 for the best poem by a previously unpublished woman poet.
2nd Prize: £400; 3rd Prize: £200
17 Runners up: £25 each
Entry Fee: £7 for up to 3 poems
All winning poems will be published in the September 2016 issue of Mslexia.
‘The poems published in Mslexia are always of the highest quality, so if someone submits a poetry manuscript to me with Mslexia included in the acknowledgements I always sit up and take notice'
Neil Astley, editor, Bloodaxe Books
Mslexia Women's Pamphlet Competition 2017
1st prize: Publication of the pamphlet by Seren Books in 2017
Plus £250, 25 complimentary copies of the pamphlet, and a ten per cent royalty on sales. One or more poems from the pamphlet will be published in Mslexia magazine.
Entry fee: £20 per pamphlet
Judge: Amy Wack (Seren Books)
Closing date: 19 June 2017
Separate from our competition for single poems, our annual pamphlet competition accepts completed collections that are 20-24 pages long, and include 18-20 poems. The rest is up to the writer!
The competition is open to women of any nationality from any country, and welcomes poems in any style, of any length, on any subject.
