Free contest, United Press National Poetry Anthology Contest, prize: £1,000 (UK)

Deadline: 30 June 2011

Entries for our biggest free poetry competition - the National Poetry Anthology 2012 - are being accepted. The poetry competition aims to encourage more people to write poetry. It's open to all UK residents, young or old. Over 250 winners are selected every year, each one representing a different UK town or area. All winners are published in the anthology and all receive a free copy of the book, and one overall winner will receive £1,000! To enter you can submit up to three poems, all of which must be no more than 25 lines (each blank line counts as one line) and 160 words each. Your entry must be something you haven't sent to us before.

You can submit your entry by post, by email to info@unitedpress.co.uk or online via our submission form.

More information here.