The Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025

The Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025 is now open for entries!

The Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025 : The Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025, organised by The Rialto poetry magazine, has been recetly opened for entries and is open to anyone over the age of 18 to participate.

➜ Short description

The Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2025, organised by The Rialto poetry magazine, has been recently opened for entries and is open to anyone over the age of 18 to participate.

Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge Helen Mort. Helen Mort is a poet, novelist and non fiction writer. Her poetry collections Division Street, No Map Could Show Them and The Illustrated Woman are published by Chatto & Windus. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature and the Banff Grand Prize in Canada. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. The winners will be notified in May and lists of the winners and the long-listed contestants will be published on The Rialto website.

➜ Submission requirements:

➜ Poems must have a title and must be no more than 40 lines, excluding the title, and be typed in black ink on one side of A4. The restriction of 40 lines does not include the poem title or stanza breaks, only the lines of the poem’s text.

➜ Poems must be the original work of the entrant and must not have been published, self-published or published online or broadcast.

➜ Poems must be written in English.

➜ Organiser require poems to be sent as either as a Adobe PDF or a Microsoft Word .doc or a .docx.

➜ Who may enter?

The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18.

➜ Prize:

➜ 1st prize: £1000
➜ 2nd prize: £500
➜ 3rd prize: £250

➜ Entry fees:

You can submit up to six poems in one batch, the entry fee for the first poem is £7 and includes an administration fee, the fee for each subsequent poem in the batch is £4.