The New Cockney Poets & Together on Cable Street
Closing date: Sun 4 Oct 2026
The Modern Cockney Festival is now open for poetry entries for an upcoming anthology on two themes:
– Modern Cockney identities & Cockney Diaspora
– Unity & Comradeship of East End Communities (in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street)
Entrants aged 18 and over are welcome to submit poems of up to 40 lines.
A prize of a Monkey (£500) for a poem judged as one that brings either of the themes most alive; two Tons (£100) as commendation prizes.
Judges: Ovyuki, Aminah Rahman, Mark Ereira-Guyer, Saif Osmani, and Arthur Smith
