The ​Red Shed Poetry Competition 2025 is organized by Currock Press and sponsored by Mocca Moocho café, Cross Square, Wakefield

The competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over. Poems should be in English, they must not have been previously published, nor be currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Prizes:

• 1st— £100
• 2nd—£50
• Short listed poems – £20

We are keen to encourage quality, 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.