The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Entry for Poetry is open.
Submission Guidelines
- Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines.
- Works published or entered elsewhere are accepted.
- Accepting works on any theme.
- Enter the Award as many times as you wish, although each work requires a fee and new submission form.
- Please consider that the size of the Creative Writing Annual will be A5.
Judges: Some of the UK’s most renowned editors and publishers, and has included representatives from the Guardian, the Independent, Wasafiri, Hodder & Stoughton, Litro, The Rialto, The Poetry Exchange and Jacaranda Books
Entry fee: £12
Prizes:
- (£2,500 for the Poetry Winner, £2,500 for the Short Fiction Winner)
- Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
- Two Online Masterclasses from Arvon (Poetry Winner)
- One-year print subscription to Granta (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
- One-year digital subscription to Mslexia (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
- Six-Week Online Course from Curtis Brown Creative (Poetry Winner)
- Full membership to The Poetry Society (Poetry Winner)
- A course from the Poetry School (Poetry Winner)
- Full membership to Litopia (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
- One-year Deluxe Subscription to The London Magazine (Poetry & Fiction Winners)
Deadline: 31 August
Please note: This is an external competition; all details and all submissions are on their website. Click here.
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