Just Under Six Weeks to Enter the Spelt Poetry Competition
Closing date 31st July 2024
The Spelt Nature Poetry Competition is open for entries!
1st Prize: £300
2nd Prize: £200
3rd Prize £100
Opening date: 23rd April 2024
Closing date: Midnight UK time, 31st July 2024
Entry Fee: £12 for up to 3 poems
This competition is for poems that embrace our mission to ‘celebrate and validate the rural experience’. This is wide open to interpretation.
The Spelt Nature Poetry Competition is now open for entries. This year we are delighted to welcome Gregory Leadbetter to be our competition judge.
Gregory Leadbetter’s books and pamphlets of poetry include Caliban (Dare-Gale Press, 2023), a New Statesman Book of the Year 2023; Balanuve, with photographs by Phil Thomson (Broken Sleep, 2021); Maskwork (Nine Arches Press, 2020), longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021; The Fetch (Nine Arches Press, 2016), and The Body in the Well (HappenStance Press, 2007). Recent work for the BBC includes the extended poem Metal City (Radio 3, 2023). A song-cycle featuring poems from The Fetch by the composer and pianist Eric McElroy has been performed internationally, and a recording with the tenor James Gilchrist was released in 2023. As a critic he publishes widely on the history and practice of poetry, and his book Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination was awarded the University English Book Prize 2012. He is Professor of Poetry at Birmingham City University.
Concessions
Spelt is run on a shoestring. The fees for the competition cover the judge’s fees and prize winnings. That being said, we are committed to providing accessibility as far as we can and are therefore able to offer three free places for writers in financial difficulty. We will not ask you to prove this, just drop us a line at speltmagazine@gmail.com and let us know that you would like one of the free places.
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To enter the competition, follow the link to our website: Spelt Magazine