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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 ...
Donald Justice Poetry Prize – sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards at the West Chester University Poetry Center Dwarf Stars Award – annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year.
SI Leeds Literary Prize, for unpublished fiction (more than 30,000 words) by Black and Asian women in the UK Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize , judged in three categories: fiction, poetry, and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
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.
John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate. The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the prime minister.The role does not entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant national occasions.
Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte and Kimiko Hahn are among this year's winners of awards from the Poetry Foundation, which announced some of the poetry world's most lucrative prizes. Hahn, a faculty ...
The competition closed on 6 August having received more than 1,000 portfolios (almost 4,000 poems). The award ceremony again formed part of the Manchester Literature Festival and was a gala dinner held at Manchester Metropolitan University , hosted by James Draper and Matthew Frost (this time working as a humorous double act) with music from ...
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize for poetry awarded by the T. S. Eliot Foundation. For many years it was awarded by the Eliots' Poetry Book Society (UK) for "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" [ 1 ] in any particular year.