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Carol Ann Duffy, the UK poet laureate, winner in 1983. 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 ...
National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000) Arvon International Poetry Prize (biennial) Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry) Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000) Rhysling Award (For science-fiction poetry)
SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize , judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and life writing; open to anyone who has not published a complete book
The Poetry Business were established in 1986, [2] and is now "headquartered just a stone's throw from Sheffield's historic cathedral." [3] They publish The North magazine, which was 70 issues old in August 2024, [4] and several imprints, and their poets "have won or been shortlisted for almost every major poetry prize, including the Forward Prize on 11 occasions and 10 Poetry Book Society ...
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 ...
A third Manchester Poetry Prize followed in 2012, and while the £10,000 main prize will remain, the Young Writer bursary element was dropped. In 2013, the Prize became an annual event and a Manchester Writing for Children Competition (Poetry) was launched, with judges Mandy Coe, Imtiaz Dharker and Philip Gross.
Arvon was founded in 1968 by two young poets, John Fairfax and John Moat. [3] It runs residential writing courses at writing houses in three rural locations: Totleigh Barton, a 16th-century manor house in Devon; The Hurst, a manor house in Shropshire, which formerly belonged to the playwright John Osborne; and the former home of Ted Hughes, Lumb Bank, a 17th-century mill-owner's house hear ...
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.