The Nottingham Open Poetry Prize has a prize pot totalling £625 for three winners and ten merit prizes for original, previously unpublished poems of a maximum forty lines, written in English.
Anyone over the age of sixteen can enter the competition and there is no limit on number of entries. The entry fee is £3, £10 for four. The closing date is 12 August.
Details: The Competition Secretary, 38 Harrow Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7DU; website:www.nottinghampoetrysociety.co.uk