Opportunities
Submissions
Poetry London is a leading international magazine, where new names share pages with acclaimed contemporary poets. We also publish a wide range of poetry in translation.
The magazine is published in March, June and October. We receive a vast amount of submissions, so reading can take up to three months, and if your work is shortlisted, maybe even longer. You might find it helpful to read the magazine first, to see if your work is suitable.
The Poetry London Prize
The Poetry London Prize is a major, internationally renowned award for a single outstanding poem. Previous winners include Liz Berry, Niall Campbell, Romalyn Ante and Richard Scott.
The 2025 Poetry London Prize is now open
Winners will be notified by the end of September 2025
First Prize £5,000
Second Prize £2,000
Third Prize £1,000.
Submissions Open: March 15. Closing Date: June 30
The judge of the 2025 Prize is Victoria Kennefick.
Victoria Kennefick is a writer, poet, editor and teacher. Her debut collection, Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Butler Literary Prize. Her second collection, Egg/Shell (Carcanet Press, 2024) was a Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 2024 and BBC Poetry Extra Book of the Month for March as well as a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, The Sunday Independent and The Poetry Society UK. She is the 2025 Arts Council of Ireland/Trinity College Dublin Writer Fellow.
The Poetry London Pamphlet Prize
The Poetry London Pamphlet Prize will help writers of all backgrounds and ages who are ready to take their work to the next level via publication with Poetry London Editions, the magazine’s new imprint.
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Apprenticeship Scheme
Generously funded by The Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council England, this is a scheme for talented emerging poets, of any age, who will each be matched with a prominent poet with proven experience in supporting the work of other writers.
Our Apprenticeship scheme is now closed
We are delighted to announce the two winners of the Poetry London Apprenticeship Scheme, generously funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and Arts Council England.
Freya Gillard is a young writer from Devon. She is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2023 and has had numerous poetry and articles published on the Poetry Society website. She is also a graduate of the BFI’s Storytelling Workshop, developing new voices in screenwriting from the South West.
Nasim Luczaj is a poet and Polish—English translator based in London. She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Press) and the winner of the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. Her work has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2024, and appeared in publications including Prototype 5, Propel, Gutter, Datableed, Tentacular, SPAM zine, and Wet Grain. She was raised in the Polish Carpathians.
Nasim Luczaj and Freya Gillard will work with Pascale Petit to develop their poetry over the next few months in a series of meetings and workshops. Pascale Petit said ‘there’s passion and mystery in their work, which I thought exciting.’
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Workshops
For The Record: (Re)Writing The Past
Thursday 27th March 2025 • 7pm
What does it mean to write hidden or obscured histories? What are the challenges? What are the responsibilities? Using as a springboard the words of Patricia Smith who indicated that ‘the job of the poet is to be a witness’, participants of this poetry workshop will be supported to start writing family stories, social histories and to explore what place folklore, magic and the Otherworld might have in this work.
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Vacancies
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