Open from 1st January 2025

We are delighted to announce that Jo Bell will judge the Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition 2025. Jo will read every entry to the competition. She will draw up the shortlist, pick the highly commended poems, two runners up and, of course, the overall winner.

Jo Bell is one of the UK’s best-loved poets and mentors, best-selling co-author of How To Be a Poet and leader of online community The Poetic Licence which helps hundreds of poets to develop their practice. Winner of the Charles Causley Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize and widely published, she was formerly director of National Poetry Day. Her latest collection is Kith, published by Nine Arches Press

The headlines

• Entries must be the original work of the author
• Poems must be written in English and can be on any theme, in any poetic form or style
• The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18
• The competition closes on Saturday 5^thApril 2025 at midnight CET (Central European Time); any entry arriving after this date and time will not be eligible for consideration
• The shortlisted poets will be informed ahead of any published results
• The winner and runners-up will be advised ahead of any published results
• By entering the competition, you are agreeing to your work being published in the Artemesia Arts 2025 anthology, should it be selected for publication
• Results will be published in late June on the Artemesia Arts Website artemesia-arts.com and circulated to relevant press and media

Jo Bell our 2025 Poetry Competition Judge

The detail

• Written in any legible font, point 12 in 1.5 line spacing
• Poems should be in a Word document with each poem on a new page
• Poems should be a maximum of 40 lines, not counting the title or any line spaces
• We prefer not to receive PDF’s – if you have a concern over the formatting of your poem, please get in touch with Kate Rose at #kate rose in the subject line via artemesia.arts@gmail.com
• Entries must not have been published, self-published, broadcast or posted online, including on a personal blog
• Entries should not have won a prize elsewhere
• Simultaneous submission is permitted, however if your poem wins a prize or is published elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible so we can remove it from the competition
• Entries will be read and judged anonymously so do not include or show your name or any other contact details on the page or pages attached with your poem(s)
• The Judge’s decision to award a prize is final, no discussion of results will ensue
• Artemesia Arts decision to publish is at its own discretion

Competition Administrator and first point of contact

Kate Rose is the competition administrator.

You can contact her at #kate rose in the subject box via  artemesia.arts@gmail.com 

Kate is a published poet and has been placed in a number of poetry competitions.  The 2025 competition will be the seventh competition she has managed.

Prizes

1st Prize £200 (two hundred pounds sterling) plus the winning poem will be published in Artemesia Arts poetry anthology 2025, published by Mosaïque Press
Two runners up will receive £80 each (eighty pounds sterling) and the poems will be published in the 2025 anthology

A small number of poems will also be highly commended by the judge and these poems will be published in the 2025 anthology
A further 25 poems will be considered for publication in the Artemesia Arts Poetry Anthology 2025

All poets included in the 2025 Anthology will receive one free copy of the final anthology
All winners will be invited to read at the 2025 poetry@treignac poetry retreat weekend, 5-7 September 2025, in Treignac, Coreze, South West France*

Entry fee

Entry is £5 (five pounds sterling) per poem

No refunds will be made under any circumstances once a poem/poems have been submitted

Please note you pay a fee per poem submitted

If there is a difference between your writers’ name and your payment fee name, please tell us in your email

If there is a difference between your email name and your writer’s name, please make sure that you tell us

By Bank transfer to: ASSOC. L’ARTEMESIA
Ref: Poetry Competition 

Account number: 66120884930
IBAN (International Bank Account Number) :
FR76 1680 6099 3966 1208 8493 051
Code BIC ( Bank Identification Code ) : AGRIFRPP868

By euro cheque (euros only)
Made out to Artemesia Arts and sent to:

Kate Rose
1 Chemin des Gouttes,
Gioux
23190 La Serre Bussiere Vieille, France

By PayPal:

You can pay via PayPal even if you don’t have an account. 

Just go to PayPal and pay artemesia.arts@gmail.com

Please note Artemesia Arts PayPal account email is: artemesia.arts@gmail.com

Please double check before sending your fee that you have sent it to the correct email/account.  If in any doubt please get in touch with us before you send you payment. There are a number of similar Artemesia accounts on PayPal, but our spelling of artemesia is very particular, it is spelt with 2 e’s and only 1 i. Also, other accounts don’t necessarily include artemesia.arts

Artemesia Arts cannot be held responsible for fees being submitted to the wrong account due to misspelling or typos.

By email to artemesia.arts@gmail.com

Please put Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition in the title box of your email and include the following information in the body of the email:  

Name

Address

Telephone number including country code

Email address

Payment reference (PayPal/Cheque or/ Bank Acc number)

Number of poems submitted

Title of each poem

Attach a Word document with each poem (including title) appearing on a separate page

Send to: artemesia.arts@gmail.com by Saturday, 5th April 2025 at midnight CET

By post

Our preference is to receive entries via email.  However, if this is really not possible, we will accept printed copies. Please send to:

Kate Rose,  1 Chemin des Gouttes, Gioux, 23190 La Serre Bussiere Vieille, France

Please include the following information:

Cover note to include:

Name

Address

Telephone number including country code

Email address

Payment reference (PayPal/Cheque or/ Bank Acc number)

Number of poems submitted

Title of each poem

2 x Word document for each poem (including title) appearing on a separate page

*Please note that we would love to see and hear winning and commended poets at poetry@treignac 2025 in Treignac, South West France.  Unfortunately we are not able to cover the costs associated with the event.  This is a selected event for invited poets only and details of previous events can be found on our website.