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Isabella Gardner Poetry Award – sponsored by BOA Editions. Jackson Poetry Prize - Honors an American poet of exceptional talent, sponsored by Poets & Writers; in 2022, carried an award of $80,000. Julie Suk Award – awarded for Best Poetry Book by a Literary Press, sponsored by Jacar Press. Kate Tufts Discovery Award – $10,000 awarded to a ...
The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. [1] It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets.
British Book Awards, the "Nibbies". Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread book awards) Guardian First Book Award. International Rubery Book Award. Jhalak Prize. John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Ondaatje Prize. Orwell Prize. Portico Prize, for literature that "evokes the spirit of the North".
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over ...
The first Ledbury Poetry Festival was held in 1997 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. It was opened by jazz singer, critic and writer George Melly. The following year it was opened by Mark Fisher, the Labour arts minister. [2] Since then, over a thousand national and international poets have taken part in the festival.
The Poetry London Prize. The magazine runs a major international poetry competition each year, in which the winner receives the Poetry London Prize for a single outstanding poem. [2] There are also second and third prizes. All entries are single poems written in English that have not have yet been published. The first prize is currently £5000.
Tower Poetry is an organisation affiliated with Christ Church, Oxford that aims to promote the reading and writing of poetry in young people. The group is funded by a donation from the late Christopher Tower, and run by Oxford University lecturer, Dr Anna Nickerson. Tower Poetry runs the annual Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes (also known as the ...
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories. American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry. American Book Awards. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.