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 four 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.
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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
About Time
Thursday 16th July 2026 • 7pm
Not long ago, someone told me that life is long. It was a nice thing to hear, when all around us reminders of the opposite abound. In this workshop we’ll take a bit of time to explore together how time, poetry and writing have related to each other and to our lives, and how we can use the time we have as meaningfully as we can.
Prose poems and zuihitsu
Thursday 21st May 2026 • 7pm
What defines a prose poem, as opposed to short or flash fiction, or a lyric essay? What do we mean by ‘poetic’ when we apply it to prose (or indeed poems)? Why write prose poems and zuihitsu?
In this workshop, we’ll be playing in the fuzzy boundaries between the categories of prose and poetry, investigating what makes something ‘poetic’ or ‘lyric’. We’ll look at prose poems and zuihitsu (a hybrid form started in 10th century Japan that ‘incorporates nonfiction, musings and confessions, poetry, and miscellany to create a spontaneous, layered text’ [Poetry Foundation]), by writers such as Will Harris, Emily Berry, Chen Chen, Claudia Rankine, Rona Luo and Sei Shōnagon. We’ll unpack what makes them tick and write our own.
The Gothic Sublime: Rebellion, Revolution and Apocalypse of Self
Thursday 11th June 2026 • 7pm
Is the Gothic genre a place of refuge? Is it a space to unflinchingly record our injustices and histories or can it act as a witness for anonymous victims? How was the gothic imagination born and what of today’s online world and daily news can it communicate? This workshop will use exercises to embed the Gothic Sublime’s subconscious and apocalyptic techniques in poetry practice to sublimate our own voices. Looking at poems by Jo Shapcott, Mario Petrucci, Aoife Lyall, Ricky Laurentiis, J. Bailey Hutchinson and more.
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Vacancies
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