Tag: Forward Prizes for Poetry

Emily Blewitt’s poem at And Other Poems Highly Commended in this year’s Forward Prizes

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I'm very happy to say that Emily Blewitt's prose poem This Is Not a Rescue, first published at  And Other Poems (the poetry site I edit), has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and will be published this autumn in The Forward Book of Poetry 2017.  Huge congratulations to Emily whose debut collection will be … Continue reading Emily Blewitt’s poem at And Other Poems Highly Commended in this year’s Forward Prizes

UK online poetry journals now eligible to submit to Forward Prize

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The Forward Arts Foundation, sponsors of The Forward Prizes for Poetry, has announced that this year, for the first time, online journals based in the UK and Ireland are permitted to nominate up to two poems from their sites for consideration in the Prize for Best Single Poem. There are further guidelines for eligibility, available here, … Continue reading UK online poetry journals now eligible to submit to Forward Prize