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Montreal International Poetry Prize ($20,000 prize for one poem) National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000) Arvon International Poetry Prize (biennial) Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry) Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000)
Contestants have specific criteria for the poems at the state and national levels. All poems must be selected from an online or paper anthology to be eligible for competition. One poem must be pre-20th century, and one must be 25 lines or fewer. One poem can account for both criteria, leaving the second and third poems unrestricted.
The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. [1] It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets.
Poetry slams began in Chicago in the 1980s, [1] with the first slam competition designed to move poetry recitals from academia to a popular audience. American poet Marc Smith , believing the poetry scene at the time was "too structured and stuffy", began experimenting by attending open-microphone poetry readings, and then turning them into ...
The National Poetry Slam (NPS) was a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia, participate in a large-scale poetry slam. The event occurred in early August every year and in different U.S. cities. The last National Poetry Slam took place in 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
Because of the popularity of iWPS and to avoid the confusion of two "individual" poetry slam titles being awarded ever year, Poetry Slam Inc. decided to cancel the "indie" competition at the National Poetry Slam. [7] In 2016, the competition was held in Flagstaff, Arizona. [8] In 2017, it was held in Spokane, WA and in 2018-2019 it was held in ...
The Womxn of the World Poetry Slam is a 4-day international competition and festival. [1]The tournament has two days of preliminary rounds, in which poets compete in 1, 2, 3, and 4 minute bouts.
It was launched in April 2011 during National Poetry Month. [1] The competition invites online submissions of poems in English from anywhere in the world, and is adjudicated by a board of 10 international editors, which changes every competition, but the winner is selected by a single judge - in 2011, it was former British Poet Laureate Andrew ...