Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
Sponsor – Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
Deadline Date – February, 1, 2025
Funding – $2,000.00 USD
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The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College provides awards for poetry through this annual competition.
The competition is for unpublished poetry. Each poem should be no more than two manuscript pages. Up to five poems per person will be accepted for consideration. Only unpublished poems may be submitted.
The competition awards a first prize of $2000, the second prize of $1000 and the third prize of $500.Winners will be announced in spring 2025 on www.poetrycenterpccc.com. Winning poems will be published in the Paterson Literary Review.
Snowbound Chapbook Award
Sponsor – Tupelo Press
Deadline Date – February 28, 2025
Funding – $1,000.00 USD
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The Snowbound Chapbook Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. Manuscripts are judged anonymously and all finalists will be considered for publication. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books.
Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books.
The Snowbound Chapbook Award is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Employees of Tupelo Press and authors with books previously published by Tupelo Press are not eligible. Poets submitting work for consideration may be published authors or writers without prior book publications.
The Snowbound Chapbook Award includes a cash award of $1,000 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 25 copies of the winning title, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion.
Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Sponsor – Hippocrates Society for Poetry and Medicine
Deadline Date – February 14, 2025
Funding – $1,260.00 USD
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The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. Poems must be no more than 50 lines in length and not have previously been published in any form. They must be by a living poet, written in English and should not be translations of another writer’s work. There is no limit to the number of entries. Results will be announced via an online Prize Ceremony in May 2025. Winning poems will be published in an anthology of winning poems.
Poems are in 3 categories:
- Open Prize: open to any entrant;
- Health Professionals Prize: open to health professionals and health students from all disciplines;
- Young Poets Prize: for entrants aged 14-18.
The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject.
The prize money for the Open and Health Professional Categories is:
- 1st: £1000;
- 2nd: £500;
- 3rd: £250.
For the Young Poets category, the first place poem will receive £250.
Results will be announced via an online Prize Ceremony in May 2025. Winning poems will be published in an anthology of winning poems.
Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Sponsor – Orwell Foundation
Deadline Date – January 27, 2025
Funding – $3,780.00 USD
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The Orwell Prizes, named in memory of George Orwell, the British journalist, novelist and essayist, aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics, and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing is awarded to a work of nonfiction. The prize is worth £3,000 to the winner.
The Orwell Prize for Political Writing (previously, the Orwell Prize for Books) is for a work of non-fiction, whether a book or pamphlet, first published in the UK or Ireland. ‘Political’ is defined in the broadest sense, including (but not limited to) entries addressing political, social, cultural, moral and historical subjects and can include pamphlets, books published by think tanks, diaries, memoirs, letters and essays.
A single author, or very small team of authors, must be clearly identifiable. Anthologies consisting of work by more than one author will not be accepted, but books where co-authors, up to a maximum of three, have worked on the entire book together are eligible.
The Orwell Prize for Political Writing is worth £3,000 to the winner.
