Ledbury Poetry Competition 2024
The Ledbury Poetry Competition has opened for entries, with a closing date of 8 July. All poets writing in English are eligible, no matter where they live.
Poet Maya C Popa will be the judge:
"Audre Lorde remarked that ‘Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.' This is among the many profound and vital truths about poetry, that it rushes forth to dismantle a silence or otherwise render it on the page. There are just as many ways to name as there are poets to do the naming. I look forward to widening my own hearing, my own thoughts, by spending time with these poems."
The first prize for the competition is £1,000 cash and a week's poetry course at Arvon.
Second Prize is £500, and third prize is £250.
The winners will be invited to read at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2025.
