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The York Poetry Prize is back!
The major literary prize competition returns for its
ninth year, with great cash prizes at stake.
As in previous years, the prestigious event is run
by YorkMix, in association with York Literature Festival.
Entries and prizes
The first prize is £500,
with a runner-up award of £150, third prize of £75, and
a fourth prize of £50.
A £50 award, the International Prize, will go to the
best poem from a non-UK entrant. If a non-UK entrant is the overall
winner or runner-up, the International Prize will be awarded to the
next best non-UK entry.
The Helen Cadbury Prize of £50 will be awarded to an
excellent poem from an entrant with a York (YO) postcode. If a
YO-postcode entrant wins one of the top cash prizes, the prize will
be awarded to the next best YO-postcode entry.
All entrants are eligible for the top prizes.
The closing date for entries is midnight on Sunday, 4
July, 2021.
The full rules are here.
Submit your entries here.
Even though pandemic restrictions may be relaxed by
the time our competition is over, we have decided to keep our
winners event online-only, as last year.
Shortlisted poets will be
invited (but not be obliged) to submit video of themselves reading
their poems, and these readings will be used when the winners are
revealed.
The judge for this year’s competition is Kim Moore.
Our judge, Kim
Moore, was born in 1981. She was a judge in the
2018 National Poetry Competition, and lives and works in Cumbria.
Her first full length collection, The Art of Falling was
published in April 2015 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize,
joining illustrious former winners Seamus Heaney and J.M. Coetzee.
She won a New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric
Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. Last
year she was appointed as a judge for the 2020 Forward Prizes.
Her poems have been translated into many languages
as part of the Versopolis Poetry Project, and you can read samples of her excellent work at that site.
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