The Brian Dempsey Memorial Pamphlet Prize
Closing date: Fri 28 Feb 2025
The Brian Dempsey Memorial Pamphlet Prize, now a biennial competition, is open for entries from writers in the UK.
Entries can be on any subject. Poems eligible to be entered should be unpublished works up to 40 lines including stanza gaps and title, and poets can enter 10-20 poems.
Winning Prize: Publication of work by VOLE Books, and a contract to keep it in print for 3 years, a publicity page on their website, and 70 author copies.
Poems from the pamphlets that don’t win the Brian Dempsey Prize will be eligible to be included in the VOLE Winter Single Poem Competition and may win cash prizes and and/or be published in the VOLE Spring Anthology.
Judge: Jeremy Loynes
