2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition

By Caselberg Trust | Posted: Thursday May 29, 2025

Entries open this Sunday 1 June and close on Monday 30 June 2025.

The Caselberg Trust will soon be calling for entries for the 2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Competition. Now in its 15th year, the Trust is delighted to announce that Dunedin’s finest book shop – the University Book Shop is supporting the poetry prize again this year, and will also host our awards night to coincide with the publication of Landfall 250 Spring 2025. Thank you to everyone at the University Book Shop for your ongoing support. Entries open this Sunday 1 June and close on Monday 30 June 2025.

Entries are judged blind.

First Prize is $600 (plus one-week stay at the Caselberg house at Broad Bay, Dunedin).

Second Prize is $300;

and there are up to 5 Highly-Commended awards (no monetary prizes).

The first and second-placed poems will be published in the November issue of Landfall, and all winning and highly-commended entries will appear on the Caselberg Trust website (copyright remaining with the authors).

Read more and submit your entry on our website from this Sunday: Prizes — Caselberg Trust