Deadline: 30 March 2011
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: €14 (online entry)
Accepts (genre):
Prize/Payment: €1,000
Poetry Contest Summary FOR 2011
Opens later this year. It will be announced in our newsletter, here and on the home page.
Closing date: 30 March 2011
Results: 30 April 2011
Judge: to be appointed.
Poetry Contest Prizes:
A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2010 Fish Anthology.
The best ten poems will be published in the 2011 Anthology and each poet will receive five copies of the Anthology.
All winning poets will be invited to the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2011.
Poetry Contest Entry Fees
The cost of an Online entry is fixed in Euro and the conversion into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate.
Online Entry to Poetry Contest
Please do not send stories as email attachments. Enter the Fish Poetry Contest online
Postal Entries for the Poetry Contest
To enter by post, please include entry fee and story in the same envelope. Do not put your name or address on the poem - put all contact details on a separate sheet. Cheques payable to 'Fish Publishing'. NOTE: cheques must be made out in the currency of the country from which they are sent, to the value of the fee. Receipt of entry by email only. Poems will not be returned. Critiques will be returned by email unless requested by post.
Post to: The Fish Poetry Contest, Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland
Poetry Contest Rules
* No entry form is needed. Entry is mostly on-line, or by post if required.
* You can enter as many times as you wish. One poem per entry.
* The poetry contest is open to poets of any nationality writing in English.
* There is no restriction on theme or style.
* Poem length is restricted to 200 words.
* The winning poems must be available for the anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
* Copyright returns to the poet one year after publication of the anthology. Copyright of the anthology remains with Fish.
* Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.
* The judges' verdict is final.
* No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
* Poems cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered. Do not put name or address with the poem, but on a separate sheet if entering by post, or in the correct place on the online entry system.
* Overall winners of the Fish Poetry Prize may enter again, but will not be eligible for the first prize.
* A poet who has had two poems in Fish Anthologies may not enter for three years. They may enter other Fish Prizes in that time. (This is designed to give opportunities to a wider circle of emerging poets).
* Entry is taken to be acceptance of these rules.
More information here.
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: €14 (online entry)
Accepts (genre):
Prize/Payment: €1,000
Poetry Contest Summary FOR 2011
Opens later this year. It will be announced in our newsletter, here and on the home page.
Closing date: 30 March 2011
Results: 30 April 2011
Judge: to be appointed.
Poetry Contest Prizes:
A First Prize of €1,000 to the winner plus publication in the 2010 Fish Anthology.
The best ten poems will be published in the 2011 Anthology and each poet will receive five copies of the Anthology.
All winning poets will be invited to the launch of the 2011 Fish Anthology. This will take place during the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2011.
Poetry Contest Entry Fees
The cost of an Online entry is fixed in Euro and the conversion into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate.
Online Entry to Poetry Contest
Please do not send stories as email attachments. Enter the Fish Poetry Contest online
Postal Entries for the Poetry Contest
To enter by post, please include entry fee and story in the same envelope. Do not put your name or address on the poem - put all contact details on a separate sheet. Cheques payable to 'Fish Publishing'. NOTE: cheques must be made out in the currency of the country from which they are sent, to the value of the fee. Receipt of entry by email only. Poems will not be returned. Critiques will be returned by email unless requested by post.
Post to: The Fish Poetry Contest, Fish Publishing, Durrus, Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland
Poetry Contest Rules
* No entry form is needed. Entry is mostly on-line, or by post if required.
* You can enter as many times as you wish. One poem per entry.
* The poetry contest is open to poets of any nationality writing in English.
* There is no restriction on theme or style.
* Poem length is restricted to 200 words.
* The winning poems must be available for the anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
* Copyright returns to the poet one year after publication of the anthology. Copyright of the anthology remains with Fish.
* Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.
* The judges' verdict is final.
* No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
* Poems cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered. Do not put name or address with the poem, but on a separate sheet if entering by post, or in the correct place on the online entry system.
* Overall winners of the Fish Poetry Prize may enter again, but will not be eligible for the first prize.
* A poet who has had two poems in Fish Anthologies may not enter for three years. They may enter other Fish Prizes in that time. (This is designed to give opportunities to a wider circle of emerging poets).
* Entry is taken to be acceptance of these rules.
More information here.
