Magma Poetry Competition 2024/25

Magma Poetry Competition 2024/25 is now open for entries!

Magma Poetry Competition 2024/25: Magma Poetry Competition 2024/25, organized by the Magma Poetry magazine based in the UK, has been recently announced for entrie inviting anyone wordwide to participate.

Short description

Magma Poetry Competition 2024/25, organized by the Magma Poetry magazine based in the UK, has been recently announced for entrie inviting anyone wordwide to participate. There are two contests, one for short poems of up to 10 lines, and one for poems of 11 to 50 lines.

All poems must be previously unpublished.

This year the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines will be judged by AMY ACRE, whose debut collection, Mothersong (Bloomsbury, 2023) was shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize, and named a Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Financial Times.

Who may enter?

This competition is open to anyone.

Prize:

➜ First prize for the Judge’s and Editors’ Prize is £1000, second prize £300 and third prize £150.
➜ The three prize-winning poems from each category will be published in Magma and there will also be five special mentions for each of the Judge’s Prize and Editors’ Prize categories.
➜ All winning and commended poems will be published online on the Magma website.
➜ Winning and commended poets will be invited to read their poems at a Magma Competition event in Spring 2025.

Entry fees:

The entry fees are £5 for the first poem, £4 for the second poem and £3.50 for the third and each subsequent poem.