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Poetry competition 2025 from Dementia together magazine

Take part in our eighth Dementia together magazine poetry competition! We want to hear from first-time poets as well as more experienced writers.

We’re looking for your poems about dementia, or about people affected by the condition.

The competition is open to entries until the end of June 2025. We’ll recognise poems that express the impact of dementia, as well as those showing the greatest skill with words.

You can enter up to three poems that you’ve written, and each can be up to 30 lines long. The winning entries will be published in our October/November magazine (you’ll retain copyright of your work).

How to enter our poetry competition

We need to receive your entries, along with your name and postal address, by midnight on 30 June 2025.

• Email poetrycomp@alzheimers.org.uk or post to: Poetry Competition, Alzheimer’s Society, Suite 2, 1st Floor East Wing, Plumer House, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5FS.
• If there’s another way you’d like to enter your poetry, please let us know and we’ll see what we can do.
• The competition is open to residents of the UK, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands who are aged 16 or above at the time of entering.
• Poems must be your original work and not published elsewhere (unless in a personal capacity, such as on your blog – ask us if you’re unsure).
• If poems are entered on someone else’s behalf, the person entering them must have the poet’s permission to do this before entering them into the competition.
• Poems will be anonymised while being shortlisted and winners selected, and the results are final.

Read the winning poems from our 2023 competition and from our 2021 competition.