Judge: Billy Collins
Word Limit: 60 lines
Closes: 31 March ‘26
Results: 15 May '26
Anthology Published: July 2026
Entry Fees: €16 / €11 subsequent entries. (Optional Critique €45)
Prizes:
- Top 10 poems will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2026.
- 1st prize: €1,000
- 2nd: Fish Writing Course + €300.
- 3rd: €300
Rules: Poetry Prize
- No entry form is needed.
- Entry is online, or by post if required.
- You may enter as many times as you wish.
- The poetry competition is open to poets of any nationality writing in English.
- There is no restriction on theme or style.
- Poem length is restricted to 60 lines. The title is not included in the word limit.
- The winning poems must be available for the Fish Anthology and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
- Fish holds publishing rights for work published in the Fish Anthology for one year after publication, after which rights revert to the author. (Please acknowledge Fish in any subsequent publications.)
- Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.
- The judges’ verdict is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
- Poems cannot be altered or substituted once they have been entered.
- Judging is anonymous. Name and contact details must not appear on the poem, (in the box provided if entering online, on separate sheet if entering by post).
- In order to give opportunities to emerging writers: (a) Writers who have had two poems published in Fish Anthologies may not enter for three years after their second publication. They may enter other Fish competitions. (b) Previous first prize winners may enter again, but will not be eligible for the first prize.
- Entry fees will not be returned if poems are withdrawn after entering.
- Entry is taken to be acceptance of these rules.
Fees: Poetry Prize
The cost of an Online entry is fixed in Euro and the conversion into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate.
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