Heroica is delighted to announce the launch of our new Poetry Prize. The Heroica Poetry Prize has a £125 top prize and the winners, along with all long-listed poems, will be published (in print) in the first Heroica Poetry Anthology.

Entry is £2 per poem, £5 for 3 or £10 for unlimited entries. Entry is free for HEROIClub members. Fees will be used to build the prize pot and to cover the production and printing fees of the anthology.

The prize is open for submissions until 29th February 2024, with the long list to be announced at the end of March.

We are keen to encourage quality submissions, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.