Our 2024 Poetry competition is now closed
Jane Hirshfield, award winning poet, essayist and translator will be judging our 2024 poetry competition.
The winning poet will receive £2,000, with £500 being awarded to the second-placed poem, £250 being awarded to third-place; £250 will also be awarded to the best poem by an unpublished poet. The winners, along with 16 runner's up will be published in the March 2025 edition of Mslexia.
Want to see how our 2023 winner Sue Burge did it? Read her winning poem 'To whom it may concern' here, along with comments from our 2023 judge Fiona Benson.
Want more? Check out our 2022 winner 'The policeman's daughter' by Vicci Bentley; 'A poem to my mother that she will never read', by Caroline Reid; 'A postcard on the restoritive effects of sea air after a nervous breakdown', by Ellora Sutton, which won in 2020. And Regi Claire's ‘(Un)certainties’ which won in 2019, and went on to be shortlisted in the prestigious Forward Prize for Poetry 2020.
Entrants will be notifief of the outcome of their entry in February 2025.
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