Entries open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine

Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize Open, NHS and Young Poets categories - deadline 12MN GMT 31st January, 2014.

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With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In its first 4 years, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 5000 entries from 55 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. 

Awards for the 2014 Prize will be announced by the judges in May, 2014 at the Wellcome Collection in London at the end of the 5th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine. 

Rules for the Hippocrates Prize
Awards are in an Open category, which anyone in the world may enter, and an NHS category, which is open to UK National Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations involved in education and training of NHS students and staff. 

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The judging panel for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize includes poet Philip Gross, a winner of
the TS Eliot Prize.

Co-organizers are medical professor Donald Singer and poet and translator Michael Hulse.  

The Hippocrates poetry and medicine initiative received the Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts in the 2011 Times Higher Education awards. This award aims to recognise the collaborative and interdisciplinary work that is taking place in universities to promote the arts. Entries were open to teams and all higher education institutions in the UK. 

Major support for the Hippocrates initiative has come from the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, with additional support from the Wellcome Trust, the Cardiovascular Research Trust, the National Association of Writers in Education, and the University Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study