Our poetry competition is in memory of the late Robin Lloyd-Jones. Robin was an environmentalist and peace campaigner who served on the boards of many of our groups and founded Autumn Voices, an organisation fostering creativity in older people.

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The subject offers wide scope. Your poem can be about the terrible destruction war wreaks on the landscape, or it can focus on the greed of the warmongers, the politics of war, or personal responses to damaged landscapes. People talk about climate change being driven by greenhouse gases and industry but there is little discussion of the impact of war and the weapons industry and we would like to change that.

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The competition will be judged by one representative from each organisation supporting the competition - Dove Tales, Scottish Peace Network, Scottish PEN, Scottish CND, Federation of Writers, Campaign Against the Arms Trade and Autumn Voices.

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COMPETITION RULES

Entries should be up to 42 lines, not including the title, any dedication or line breaks.

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They must be submitted in a Word document – no pdf’s please – in any 12 point font.

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Send to: dovetalesasap@outlook.com

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In the subject line please state: Competition entry.

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Or if you prefer only to submit to the anthology please state: Anthology submission.

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For the anthology we are seeking poems of up to 42 lines, prose of up to 1200 words and original artwork.

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In the body of your email please state:

Your name, your address, your email address

If under 25, your age.

Poem title(s)

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Entries are judged anonymously. Please do not include your name, address, phone number, email, website, or twitter handle etc on the Word document. The entries will be sent to the judges without identifying details.

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Please attach your poem or poems in a single Word file, there should be no identifying features on the file other than the poem title.

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Poems will not be accepted by post.

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Entries must be your original, unpublished work only – (including any website, public blog, online forum or broadcast medium.)

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Copyright stays with you but we reserve the right to publish all entries on our websites or in the subsequent anthology, also titled War, the Money Tree.

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If you win a prize or are published elsewhere in the meantime, your entry must be withdrawn.

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Entry fee - £2 per poem, to be paid to Dove Tales’ Square account:

https://square.link/u/UFUN5S5h

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We cannot accept alterations to the poem once it has been submitted.

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Entries close 11.59pm July 14th, 2026.

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The judges’ decision is final.