There is still time if
you wish to take part or to let young poet friends know about the
award, entries close at 12 midnight GMT on 29th February,
2016.
Visit here to find out how to enter for the 2016 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
The annual Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine is a £500 award for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme.
The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is open to anyone in the world aged 14 – 18 years.
Winning and commended
poems in the Young Poets Prize are published in the annual Hippocrates
Prize Anthology.
Shortlists for the Open, NHS and Young Poets awards in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine will be announced by the judges in early March.
Since it was founded in 2012, there has been interest in the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize from 15 countries, with winners and commended poets from the UK, USA and Canada.
The annual Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world with a prize fund of £500 for the Young Poets award and £5500 for winning poems in its Open International and UK NHS Awards.
Awards will be presented in April 2016 at a ceremony in London. Winning and commended poems are published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology. The awards have received widespread press and broadcast media coverage.
Hippocrates Prize co-organiser Donald Singer said:
"Engaging with health through poetry can provide valuable support for patients and their families."
Poet and Hippocrates judge Wendy French said:
"My experience as poet-in-residence at the MacMillan Cancer Centre shows how patients undergoing palliative care can find helpful support from engaging in poetry.”
Poet Wendy French, Harvard physician and poet Rafael Campo, and Gareth Powell, Secretary of the Methodist Church, are judges for the 2016 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine international and UK NHS awards.
The Prize is run by the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine, which received the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts for its work on the synergy between medicine, the arts and health.
Visit here to find out how to enter for the 2016 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
The annual Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine is a £500 award for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme.
The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is open to anyone in the world aged 14 – 18 years.
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| 2015 Hippocrates Prize winners: From the USA - Maya Catharine Popa (Open Award) and Parisa Thepmankorn (Young Poets Award) and Kate Compston from the UK (NHS Award) |
Shortlists for the Open, NHS and Young Poets awards in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine will be announced by the judges in early March.
Since it was founded in 2012, there has been interest in the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize from 15 countries, with winners and commended poets from the UK, USA and Canada.
The annual Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world with a prize fund of £500 for the Young Poets award and £5500 for winning poems in its Open International and UK NHS Awards.
Awards will be presented in April 2016 at a ceremony in London. Winning and commended poems are published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology. The awards have received widespread press and broadcast media coverage.
Hippocrates Prize co-organiser Donald Singer said:
"Engaging with health through poetry can provide valuable support for patients and their families."
Poet and Hippocrates judge Wendy French said:
"My experience as poet-in-residence at the MacMillan Cancer Centre shows how patients undergoing palliative care can find helpful support from engaging in poetry.”
Poet Wendy French, Harvard physician and poet Rafael Campo, and Gareth Powell, Secretary of the Methodist Church, are judges for the 2016 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine international and UK NHS awards.
The Prize is run by the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine, which received the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts for its work on the synergy between medicine, the arts and health.
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