In honour of the 100th anniversary of W.B. Yeats being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society launched the Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize. The award will take place at Thoor Ballylee, the former home of W.B. Yeats, located in Gort, Co Galway, Ireland.
The poetry competition opened on Yeats’s birthday, 13 June 2023, while the closing date for submissions is midnight 18 August 2023. The prize is open to anyone, but poems must be unpublished, in English, and no more than 40 lines. There is a small entry fee, but also a first prize of €1,000, second and third prizes, and the prospect of publication at Yeats’s tower itself and on our website. The judge, poet Mary Madec, will determine first, second and third place. Mary was the recipient of the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry in 2008 and has published several collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry.
For more see our dedicated page with competition rules and our entry portal.
