Kudos 83    JULY/AUGUST 2010
Runs mainly from the end of July right up to mid September, and beyond in some cases

THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE…

The Poetry Business
(2010 Book & Pamphlet Competition   www.poetrybusiness.co.uk)

And if you strike while the iron is hot,
you can maybe make a mint with Writing Forge,
The Manchester Prize or the Basil Bunting Award
Or pick, pick, pick up a prize, from Picador
and have them publish your first collection

Something new from Eastbourne, Malton and … Newark;
old, aka golden oldies (lengthier too) for Second Light.
And not blue, but boldly - go with Graffiti for travel writing.

Yes, Arts Advance: it’s poetry all the way, down to Southport
or up to Yorkshire, West with Aber,
as far as the USA’s Dorothy Rosenberg Prizes

So keep your eyes open for Sentinel and WriteonSite,
ears peeled for Spokenink and find out more about –
ooh all kinds of things (like where to fit in borrow…)

Kudos 82 MAY/JUNE 2010

THINK  BIG….

Yes, the BBC National Short Award - but there’s tons to be won:
Bridport, Essex, KSMA, Manchester, Mslexia, Poetry London,
Torbay and the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition

Think outside the box: Worldwide
That lightbulb moment with Omnidawn?
Or maybe come first: Finishing Line, Lifebytes, Poetry on the Lake?

Think of others: charity begins at home,
writing poems for EKO, Jigsaw4u, Read for READ and Writing the World,
prose for NCLA, (international students) and the Priory/Ryan McKay Prize

Think you’ve already met Mabel Barber, Sid Chaplin, Frederik van Eeden, ‘Della Galton’, Catherine Howard, Ted Hughes (Elmet), Tony Lothian, Sir Peter Ustinov, Ted Walters

Or you can make Hay with Havant, Ledbury, Legend, Poetry Pulse, Sentinel, Writespace, Writers’ Clinic and WriteonSite

And if you think you know the answers: what about Aquillrelle, Fundada, LaScala, Phantoms at the Phil, www.poetrypulse.com, www.spokenink.co.uk or Weasedale?
You can find out here – only in this issue of Kudos

Kudos 81 MARCH/APRIL 2010

IT’S A CLASSIC

The Keats & Shelley and The Times Stephen Spender Prizes - and the call of the wild, plus the weird and the wonderful: short stories for Calderdale.
Those in favour of poetry, fiction or non-fiction can go for the Proverse Prize.

You can have a quick look at vignettes for Segora,
or create a big bang in Cannon Poet’s Sonnet Competition.
Or a character named The Sleeper, if graphic novels are your thing.

From creations to creatures of all kinds, poetically speaking, mostly, from Blue Butterfly to Grey Hen: Moon Rabbit, Frogmore, Purple Moose … not forgetting Red Shed and LaScala

Still time for Earlyworks (and various competitions), Ver, David Burland and Hannah Frank, and your Wares can also head for Northampton, Southport and Winchester. Plus of course, Italy (which is where I’m going, for Poetry on the Lake)

There’s also a pressing need humorous poems for IRON, and for plays, turn
to the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

And we’ll leave you this time with the Face of Compassion Arts Competition

Kudos 80

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010

Cover by Green Lightening Design: www.kapulco.com

TRUE…

The Brit Awards offer all kinds of money for all kinds of writing

And it’s Art for Art’s sake, plus prizes - literally,
with the Hannah Frank Art Poetry Competition

Fish for compliments with your writing, while winning The Hippocrates Prize will do you a power of good

You can coast along with Fylde Writers; spring into action and be ahead of the game with Northampton, Southport and Ware

Or investigate Verulam Writers Circle’s ‘Get Writing’ 2010 competition and Conference, and, of course: The Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger Competition

Still time for DAWs, David Burland, Diverse Voices, Dark Tales,
Limnisa, Mirehouse, Theatre Royal and Bridge House

Plus The Rider Haggard Society Annual Short Story Competition,
and a free competition for children, with Oliver Eade’s Moon Rabbit