Poetry Competition with £1000 Prize from Magma Poetry

Magma Poetry competitions are now open for poets who want to participate with their long or short poems and win valuable money prizes.

• First prize for the Judge’s and Editors’ Prize is £1000, second prize £300 and third prize £150. 
• The six prize-winning poems will be published in Magma and there will also be five special mentions for the Judge’s Prize and for the Editors’ Prize. 
• Winning and commended poets will be invited to read their poems at a Magma Competition Event in Spring 2022.

• There are two categories for the competition with two types of prizes: the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines and the Editors’ Prize  for poems of up to 10 lines.
• No alterations can be made after receipt, nor fees refunded.
• All poems must be previously unpublished.
• The judge’s and editors’ decisions are final and no correspondence can be entered into. No entrant may win more than one prize in each section.
• Prizewinners will be notified individually in March 2022. The results will also be published on the Magma Poetry website after the prize-giving event.
• Copyright of each entry remains with the author, but Magma Poetry has the right to first publication of the winning poems in print and/or online within six months of the competition deadline.
• Entry implies acceptance of all the rules. Failure to comply with the rules will result in disqualification.

About Magma Poetry:-

Magma is a poetry magazine with a different editor for every issue. Magma is unique in that each issue has a different theme. This allows  greater diversity of editorship, opportunities for mentoring new editors and publication of a very wide range of work. Magma presents poems which value experimentation, ambition, and craft. Alongside poetry, it includes reviews of current publications and thought-provoking prose.

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