Win £1,000 first prize, and an Arvon course, in the annual poetry competition from Ledbury Poetry Festival. Second and third prizes are £500 and £250. The competition is for original, unpublished poems up to 40 lines. This year’s judge is JoelleTaylor, winner of the 2022 TS Eliot Prize. The entry fee is £6 per poem.The closing date is 24 August. Website: www.poetryfestival.co.uk
The winners of the Manchester Writing Competition, given for unpublished writing, are Peter Ramm with Landfall for the Poetry Prize and Leone Ross for her short story When We Went Gallivanting the Fiction Prize. Each wins £10,000.