Wendy French to judge £5,000 Hippocrates prizes
Poet Wendy French, Harvard physician and poet Rafael Campo, and Gareth Powell, secretary of the Methodist Church conference, will judge the £5,000 Hippocrates open and NHS prizes for poetry and medicine. The judges are joined by poet Siân Hughes, who will select the winner of the £500 Hippocrates Young Poet Award for poetry and medicine. The deadline is 31 January 2016. More details
1st January 2016
Deadline approaching for £2,000 Mslexia competition
Wendy Cope will be judging the £2,000 Mslexia poetry competition, with an extra prize of £1,000 for the best poem by a previously unpublished woman poet. There is also a separate pamphlet competition, with first prize publication of the pamphlet by Seren Books, plus £250, 25 complimentary copies of ...
13th June 2014
Writing the World
Cool it Schools – the global online climate change and environmental project for young people, have launched a new poetry competition to celebrate the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.
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14th April 2010