Tamar Yoseloff Photo: Stephen Wells

Crabbe Poetry Competition Entry 2023

£4.00

SPS has held the annual Crabbe poetry competition since 1954, which is now open to all who were born, educated or live in Suffolk, Norfolk or Essex, or are SPS members. Please read the rules of entry below.

This year we are welcoming Tamar Yoseloff as our adjudicator. Scroll down to read about Tamar and for the competition rules.

First Prize: £600
Second Prize: £300
Third Prize: £150
plus
Two Highly Commended Prizes of £75

Entry fees: £4 for each poem.

Closing date: 15 June 2023.

Please complete the following items and change the ‘Add to Basket’ quantity to the number of poems you are entering.

Whether you are entering one or several poems, please read this carefully and prepare your poem(s) as described before starting to enter.

  1. Put two copies of each of your poems into one document.
  2. Put each poem on a separate page (Hint: In Word use Insert->Pages->Page Break to separate them).
  3. Ensure that your name appears against only one copy of each poem. I.e. One copy of each poem must be anonymous.
  4. (Optional step) If you wish, save it as a PDF to preserve any complex formatting.
  5. Use the Browse… button below to find and upload your document.
  6. Set the basket quantity to the number of poems. E.g. if you are entering two poems, your basket will show 2.
  7. Select your qualification to enter the competition.
  8. Show your agreement with the competition rules.
  9. If ‘Pay with link’ appears, this is because you have previously saved your details with Stripe, or you will be able to do so. You may pay using that, or select ‘Add to Basket’ and you will be taken to the checkout where you can pay with Stripe, PayPal, cheque or BACS.

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SPS has held the annual Crabbe poetry competition since 1954, which is now open to all who were born, educated or live in Suffolk, Norfolk or Essex, or are SPS members.

Tamar Yoseloff Photo: Stephen Wells
Tamar Yoseloff Photo: Stephen Wells

 

 

We are delighted to welcome Tamar Yoseloff as our adjudicator for the 2023 Crabbe Poetry Competition.

Tamar Yoseloff’s sixth collection is The Black Place (Seren, 2019). She is also the author of Formerly (the inaugural chapbook from her publishing venture, Hercules Editions), incorporating photographs by Vici MacDonald and shortlisted for the 2012 Ted Hughes Award, and collaborative editions with the artists Linda Karshan and Charlotte Harker respectively.

She has run courses for galleries including the Hayward, the RA and the National Gallery and co-curated the exhibition A Fine Day for Seeing at Southwark Park Galleries in 2021. Tamar is a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry.

First Prize: £600
Second Prize: £300
Third Prize: £150
plus
Two Highly Commended Prizes of £75

All winning poems (including commended poems not attracting a monetary prize) will be read, preferably by their authors, at a celebratory Awards Event on Saturday, 7 October 2023, and will be included in the 2023 Crabbe Poetry Prize Anthology.

Competition Rules

  • Entrants should either have been born, or educated, currently work or be resident in Suffolk, Norfolk or Essex or be a current member of Suffolk Poetry Society.
  • Poems should be in English and a maximum of 50 lines.
  • Poems must be the writer’s own work, not published, broadcast, on a website, or currently entered in any other competition.
  • Each poem must be typed twice on separate pages and submitted in DUPLICATE with the fee. The poet’s name should appear on one copy only.
  • The adjudicator’s decision is final.
  • No entrant can win more than one monetary prize.
  • Only winners will be notified. Winners will be listed on the website in September 2021.
  • The Press will also be notified of the winning poets and poems.
  • Copyright of the poem remains with the poet, with permission to Suffolk Poetry Society to publish any winning poem free of charge.

Entry fees: £4 for each poem.

Closing date: 15 June 2023.

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