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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.
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 ...
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 society organises several competitions, including the British National Poetry Competition, [3] the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, [4] The Popescu Prize, The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and the Geoffrey Dearmer Award. The society also ran the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize from 1986 to 1997.
In 2017 the Ledbury Poetry Festival celebrated its 21st anniversary by launching the biannual Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections, the only prize of this kind in the UK. This prize aims to support and encourage poets at the ‘mid-career’ stage with a prize of £5,000 for the winning second collection.
"the largest in the world for a competition of this kind". [46] 39,358 £30,000 Sunday Times Short Story Award: Short story United Kingdom English "The world's richest short story prize" (single short story). [47] 38,081 CA$50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize: Poetry Canada Any Thought to be the world's richest award for a single-poem. [48]
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 ...
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.