Deadline: May 7, 2025
Entry fee: £10
About the competition
Founded in 2005, the Wigtown Poetry Prizes are some of the UK’s best established writing competitions, offering awards in all three of Scotland’s languages with a prize pot of over £3000. The 2025 prizes mark 20 years of Wigtown Poetry Prizes and over £50,000 awarded to emerging and established poets.
The competition closes on 7 May 2025, with a prize-giving at Wigtown Book Festival in the autumn.
Poems may be on any subject. Poems must not be previously published, accepted for publication or currently entered into another competition.
Entrants must be 16 years of age or over.
Winning and runner-up poems will be published on the Wigtown Poetry Prizes website after the prize-giving. Winning poems will be published in Southlight Magazine in autumn 2025.
Competition guideline
- Entries open 30 November 2024
- Entries close 7 May 2025 at 12 noon
- Poems may be on any subject
- Poems must not be previously published, accepted for publication or currently entered into another competition. If a poem is published elsewhere after being submitted for this competition, it must be withdrawn from the Wigtown Poetry Prizes, by emailing: [email protected]
- Entrants must be 16 years of age or over
- There is no restriction on the number of entries submitted by each entrant to each category of the competition, providing the appropriate fee is paid
- Read the whole guideline and submit your entry here.
