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P – Mslexia’s Women’s Poetry Competition 2022
Our annual comp is open to unpublished poems of any length on any subject, and will be judged by Costa Award-winning poet Helen Mort
You do not have to subscribe to Mslexia to be eligible, but you do have to self-identify as a woman. We will accept entries from women of any age of any nationality from any country. This includes under-18s.
Please include the title of the work on your entry.
Your entry will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name or contact details anywhere on the text pages of your entry. (This information should be restricted to your online Entry Form or to a cover sheet for postal entries.)
If you can include a word count, please do; however, if you don’t, or forget to, please don’t worry! You won’t be disqualified if you don’t include it and we will be in touch with you if there’s a problem.
This competition is open to unpublished poems of any length, on any subject. Your £10 entry fee allows you to submit up to three poems.
Prizes
1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250
Unpublished Poetry Prize for the best poem by a previously unpublished poet: £250.
The four winners, plus sixteen additional finalists will have their poems published in the March issue of Mslexia.