PRIMERS is open. The established mentoring and publication scheme from Nine Arches Press is back, providing a unique opportunity for talented poets to find publication and receive a programme of supportive feedback, mentoring and promotion.
The selecting editor and mentor for Primers Volume Eight is poet Laurie Bolger.
Previous selected poets include Romalyn Ante, Lewis Buxton, Jade Cuttle, Aviva Dautch, Sarala Estruch, Amelia Loulli, Cynthia Miller and Marvin Thompson.
Could it be you next time?
Eligibility:
This opportunity is open to anyone aged 18 or over and resident in the UK.
Primers is open to poets who have not yet published a full-length collection of poems in the UK. We define a full-length collection as any collection of poems of more than 40 pages total. Previous publication in a pamphlet(s) of less than 40 pages is allowable.
Full submission criteria here
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Deadline: midnight BST on 9th September 2025