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Winchester Poetry Prize 2017

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Closing date: 
31 July 2017
Entry: 
Open to all poets over 16. Entry fee £5 and £4 for further poems
Prize: 
First Prize £1,000, Second Prize £500, Third Prize £200

The Winchester Poetry Prize, run by the Winchester Poetry Festival, is to become an annual competition. The 2017 prize is open for entries.

The judge will be Sarah Howe, who will announce the results on 14 October.

First prize will be £1,000, second prize £500, and third prize £250. In addition to receiving cash prizes winners will be invited to read at a special prize-giving event at Winchester Poetry Day on Saturday 14th October 2017. Winning and commended poems will also be published in a competition anthology.

Entries close on 31 July.

Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times / PFDRepresents authors of fiction and non-fiction, children's writers, screenwriters, playwrights, documentary makers, technicians, presenters and public speakers throughout the world. Has 85 years of international experience in all media. PDF now have a POD section. Some good advice for those seeking a representative. Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, Sarah moved to England as a child. Her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese EncyclopediaFree online encyclopedia offered by eLibrary at www.encyclopedia.com (Tall-lighthouse, 2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She is the founding editor of Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism. She is currently a Leverhulme Fellow in English at University College London.

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Closing date: 
31 July 2017
Entry: 
Open to all poets over 16. Entry fee £5 and £4 for further poems
Prize: 
First Prize £1,000, Second Prize £500, Third Prize £200