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Dark Poets Club
Dark Poets Club is an international online literary platform and creative collective dedicated exclusively to dark poetry. The platform provides a space for emerging and established writers exploring grief, trauma, existential dread, and the shadow aspects of the human condition. Submissions are hosted worldwide through periodic competitions and themed mini challenges that offer cash prizes, publication, and community showcases.
Open to poets
- General submissions. Closes at 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth on December 6, 2026. Fee: £5 (1 poem). Pays: £500 cash prize (approx. $640 USD) plus certificate, custom t-shirt, and online publication. ```. Simultaneous submissions: allowed. Up to 5 poems.
Official site: darkpoets.club. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
Checked 2026-11-11. Find more places to send your poems on Poetry Marketplace, free.
More places to send your poems
- DarkWinter Press and Baxter House Editions
- Dawn Review
- Day Eight
- Dazed Santa
- Decolonial Passage
- Dedalus Press