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DIRT competition winners!
What beauty, absurdity, humour and suffering has entered my life these past weeks while reading submissions for the DIRT Poetry Competition 2026! The poems explored complex interdependencies with precision. Longlisted and shortlisted poems...
Drumroll please
It is our great pleasure to share the shortlist for the DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition 2026. Drumroll please….
“I was captivated most by voices that revealed themselves without needing to tell me ‘I am’. I remain haunted by these voices...
Longlists are for winners! If you're a flying ant.
What a delight it is to celebrate the thirty poets longlisted in the DIRT Plantable Poetry Competition. With more than 450 poems submitted, we have made our selection from a wild and bountiful choir of voices.
Commiserations to all the wo...
3 days left - Plantable Poetry Competition
Such wondrous submissions are rolling in, you don’t want to miss this unique opportunity to be paired up to write with another winning poet.
We’re itching to read that poem you’ve been sitting on because it feels a bit risky, so completely...
Poetry Competition OPEN for submissions
We can’t wait to read your poems, to hear your voice. DIRT’s first poetry competition opens today and closes on the 14th June, 2026 so don’t delay, enter today!
Full competition details are here: https://www.dialect.org.uk/dirt/dirtcomp26...
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Plantable poetry project that soil-obsessed Alice Willitts started with the watery wonder that is JLM Morton. After all, what would soil be without water?! Here be bits and essays and links to the poetic hyphae this co-writing touches.
Poet & plantswoman from the Fens. Curious about soil joys & soil sorrows & soil voices. Plays at being soil. Cares for soil. Am basically rain at this point.
Dialect is a writer and literature development collective providing immersive learning, sharing and publication opportunities to writers in rural / small town / remote and edgeland places.
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