This year why not enter your work in the £1,000 Crashaw Prize for debut collections of poetry or the £1,000 Scott Prize for debut collections of short stories? The prizes are open to submission from 1 July 2012 — enter now and next year your book could …

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The 1st of July sees the official launch of the 2012 Crashaw Prize for Poetry and The Scott Prize for Short Stories. Since 2008, these prizes have launched the careers of twenty-four debut writers and helped to highlight scores of others shortlisted fo …

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2012 CLPE Poetry Award. Established in 2003, the annual Poetry Award encourages and celebrates outstanding new children’s poetry. The shortlist is as fol …