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Frogmore Poetry Prize celebrates 32 years – call for submissions

The Frogmore Poetry Prize will be awarded for the 32nd time this summer. Founded in 1987, the Prize originally comprised the princely sum of twenty-five guineas and a life subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The Prize is now a more substantial two hundred and fifty guineas (£262.50), but the accompanying subscription to the Papers is now for two years, not for life.

The winner of the first Prize was David Satherley and subsequent winners have included Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci, Sharon Black, Lesley Saunders, and Ann Alexander. Caroline Price and Emily Wills have both performed the extraordinary feat of winning three times while John Latham and Howard Wright have won twice.

Janet Sutherland

The deadline for submissions for this year’s Prize is less than three weeks away (31 May 2018). Adjudicator Janet Sutherland will read all entries.

Full details at:   http://www.frogmorepress.co.uk/uncategorized/the-frogmore-poetry-prize-2018/

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Frogmore Papers No 91 and calls for submissions Frogmore Poetry Prize

Frogmore Papers 91 cover, by Christopher Lewis

Thirty-five years on from publication of the first Frogmore Papers the 91st edition has been published. Featuring poetry by Denise Bennett, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Ian Caws, Robin Houghton, Fiona Moore, Myra Schneider and others, prose by Bahar Brunton, Antony Johae and Jane McLaughlin, and artwork by Dee Sunshine, the issue sports a striking cover by Christopher Lewis.

Available post-free for £5 from The Frogmore Press, cash or cheques (payable to The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, BN7 1PJ).

The deadline for submissions to the thirty-second Frogmore Poetry Prize is 31 May 2018.  Details HERE. Adjudicator Janet Sutherland will read all entries.

Submissions are invited for the July edition of morphrog (‘poetry in the extreme’). Send up to six poems in a single Word document to: morphrog@gmail.com

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Call for submissions: Pale Fire – New writings on the Moon

The Frogmore Press invites submissions of poetry and short prose on the subject of the Moon for an anthology titled Pale Fire – New writings on the Moon. It will be edited by Alexandra Loske and published in 2019, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.

Artwork by Fergus Hare.

Submission details:

Please send up to three poems and/or one piece of short prose in hard copy to “Moon”, The Frogmore Press,  21 Mildmay Road, Lewes BN7 1PJ, or email a word document with your name and contact details clearly on every page to alexbythesea@hotmail.com . If submitting by letter, please include a stamped and addressed envelope (SAE).

Submission deadline: 30th September 2018

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The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2018

The winner of the Frogmore Poetry Prize for 2018 will win two hundred and fifty guineas and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive seventy-five and fifty guineas respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications. Previous winners of the Prize have been: David Satherley, Caroline Price, Bill Headdon, John Latham, Diane Brown, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci, Gina Wilson, Ross Cogan, Joan Benner, Ann Alexander, Gerald Watts, Katy Darby, David Angel , Howard Wright, Julie-ann Rowell, Arlene Ang, Peter Marshall, Gill Andrews, A K S Shaw, Sharon Black, Emily Wills, Lesley Saunders, Sarah Barr and Eve Jackson.

Adjudicator: Janet Sutherland was born in 1957 and grew up on a dairy farm. She studied at the universities of Cardiff and Essex, and has an MA in American Poetry. She has published three collections with Shearsman: Burning The Heartwood (2006), Hangman’s Acre (2009) and Bone Monkey (2014).

Conditions of Entry

  1. Poems must be in English, unpublished, and not accepted for future publication.
  2. Poems should be typed and no longer than forty lines.
  3. Any number of poems may be entered on payment of the appropriate fee of £3 per poem.   Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to The Frogmore Press.
  4. The following methods of payment are acceptable: cheque drawn on UK bank; British postal order; sterling.
  5. Each poem should be on a separate sheet, which should not include the name of the author.
  6. The author’s name and address should be provided on an accompanying sheet of paper.
  7. The winner, runners-up and shortlisted poets will be notified by post. All shortlisted poems will appear in number 92 of The Frogmore Papers (September 2018), which will be available at £5.00 from the address below, and on the Frogmore Press website.
  8. To receive a copy of the results, please enclose an s.a.e. marked ‘Results’.
  9. Poems cannot be returned.
  10. Closing date for submissions: 31 May 2018.
  11. Copyright of all poems submitted will remain with the authors but the Frogmore Press reserves the right to publish all shortlisted poems.
  12. The adjudicator’s decision will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.
  13. Entries should be sent to: The Frogmore Press, 21 Mildmay Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1PJ.
  14. The submission of poems for the Prize will be taken as indicating acceptance of the above conditions.