Mslexia Unpublished Women's Poetry Competition 2024
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Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Age
- No specific age required
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldMedia and Journalism
Fees£10
LocationRemotely
Deadline2024-12-08
Opportunity description
This competition is open to all unpublished poems, regardless of length or subject. The entry fee is £10, allowing you to submit up to three poems.
The Unpublished Poet Prize is an additional award of £250 for the best-unpublished poem by an unpublished poet.
The winning poems, along with 16 additional finalists, will be published in the March 2025 issue of Mslexia.
Deadline:
All entries must be submitted by 23:59 GMT on 9 December 2024.
Results:
Participants will be notified of the outcome of their entries in February 2025. The winner and finalists will be announced on 1 March 2025.
Benefits
Prizes
- 1st Prize: £2,000
- 2nd Prize: £500
- 3rd Prize: £250
Eligibility criteria
- You do not need to subscribe to Mslexia to be eligible to participate.
- Your identity must be female.
- We accept entries from women of all ages, nationalities, and from any country, including girls under the age of 18.
- No entrant can win more than one prize in the same competition.
- If the winners' list includes more than one anonymized entry from the same writer, the lower-ranked entry will be eliminated.
- Entries that have won a prize in any other competition are not eligible.
- The poems must be your work and not a translation of another author's work.