Coffee-House Poetry : Troubadour Poetry Prize

Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2024

troubadour international poetry prize 2024

judged by jane yeh & glyn maxwell

first prize £2,000
second prize £1,000
third prize £500
plus 20 commendeds
plus — winners read with judges at 2024 online international prize-night celebration on mon 9 dec

poems on any subject (see below)
submissions closed on mon 23 sep 2024
results were announced mon 9 dec 2024

Check out 2024 winners, winning poems & judges’ reports (& prior years) on our poems page.

judges

Jane Yeh was born in New Jersey, educated at Harvard & University of Iowa, now lives in London, & has degrees from Manchester Metropolitan, & London’s Royal Holloway Universities. She lectures in Creative Writing at the Open University, writes on books, theatre, & fashion for, among others, Poetry Review & Village Voice, & has published (with Sally O’Reilly) Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (Routledge, 2022). Her first collection, Marabou, was shortlisted for Whitbread, Forward, & Aldeburgh prizes, she was named as a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet for The Ninjas & her latest, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation & one of the Guardian’s best books of 2019, is The Discipline (Carcanet).

Glyn Maxwell, poet, playwright, novelist, librettist & critic, born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, has studied at Oxford & Boston, & taught in Amherst, New York & London. His poetry collections include The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, & The Breakage, Hide Now, Pluto, & his latest, How the Hell Are You (Picador, 2020), all of which were shortlisted for either Forward or TS Eliot prizes. His plays have been staged in London & New York, & his opera libretti at Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, & on tour. He has edited Derek Walcott’s collected poems, & published (with Oberon) On Poetry, a guidebook for the general reader, & Drinks with Dead Poets, a uniquely inventive novel encounter with poetry’s greats.

judges read all poems submitted

rules

Poems: Poems may be submitted from any country, may be on any theme, & must be in English, must each be no longer than 45 lines, must show title & poem only, must not show poet’s name, must be the original work of the entrant (no translations) & must not have been previously published; no text alterations accepted after submission; no limit on number of poems or number of subsequent submissions.

Submission: Email only, no postal entries: email your poems as attachments (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf only) to poems@coffeehousepoetry.org; include in email: Poet’s Name & Address, Phone Number, List of Titles, Number of Poems, Total Fees, & PayPal Receipt Number.

Fees: £6/€7/$8 per poem (Sterling/Euro/US-Dollars only); pay online (see below, PayPal account not required).

Timeline: Submit by midnight (your local time) on Mon 23 Sep 2024; prize-winners will be contacted in week commencing Mon 2 Dec 2024.

Acknowledgement/Results: Submissions acknowledged within 14 days of receipt; results posted on website after Mon 9 Dec 2024; judges’ decision is final; no correspondence entered into.

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