We are delighted to announce the winners of Magma Poetry Competition 2017/18 Judge’s Prize Judged by Mona Arshi First prize: Jo Burns – ‘The Cosmic Horseshoe’ Second prize: Pamela Job – ‘The Raku Helmet’ Third prize: Mara…
Magma’s 2017/18 poetry competitions are now open for your prize-winning long and short poems. We are very excited to announce that award-winning poet Mona Arshi is the judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines and she will…
Magma's 2017/18 poetry competitions are now open for your prize-winning long and short poems. We are very excited to announce that award-winning poet Mona Arshi is the judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines and she will…
The winners and special mentions of the Magma Poetry Competitions – for the Judge’s Prize and the Editors’ Prize – will be reading their poems at Keats House in Hampstead on Friday 11th March at 7pm, and you can buy your…
Come along and hear some past Magma Poetry Competition winners, including Geraldine Clarkson, Paul Stephenson, Linda Black and Magma’s very own Dominic Bury at our pre-deadline Poetry Competition Event on Friday 8 January at 7.30. You’ll get a chance to ask the poets about their…
Poet Cheryl Moskowitz provides the third tweet for Magma's #The 12 Competition Tweets of Christmas campaign which we are running to inspire you to enter the competition before the 18 January deadline. 'Your write poems about what/you feel deepest and hardest' are…
Magma’s 2015/2016 Poetry Competition is now open and runs until19 January 2015. Daljit Nagra is the Judge for the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines. First prize £1,000, second prize £300 and third prize £150. Magma’s Editors’ Prize is…
Why not join us for a celebratory evening with Magma Competition judge and special guest Jo Shapcott at Keats House on Friday March 27th, 7-8.30pm, when the winners of the 2014/15 Magma Competition will read their prizewinning poems. Venue: Nightingale Room, 10 Keats Grove,…
This is your last chance to enter the Magma Poetry Competition 2014/15! Magma’s Poetry Competition has two contests, one for short poems of up to 10 lines, and one for poems of 11 to 50 lines. Poems of 11 to 50 lines…
If you still need an extra push to enter the 2014/15 Magma Poetry Competition, then poet Christine Webb has written a specially commissioned poem on the scary theme of deadlines to help you beat 19th January! Christine Webb's first collection, After Babel, was published in…
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