2016 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
With a 1st prize of £5000 for the winning poem in the Open International category of £5,000, £5000 for the 1st Prize in the NHS category, and £500 for the Young Poets Award the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In its first 5 years, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 6000 entries from 61 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia.
Awards
for the 2016 Prize will be announced by the judges in April 2016 at a
ceremony at the end of the 7th International Symposium on Poetry and
Medicine.
Judges for the 2016 Hippocrates Prize Open and NHS Categories will include poet Wendy French, winner of the inaugural Hippocrates NHS Prize and poet Siân Hughes for the 2016 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize.
Rules for the Hippocrates Prize
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Deadline: Deadline 12 midnight GMT 31st January, 2016.
Open Category: any national or international entry.
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NHS Category: current or former UK NHS-related staff and UK health students.
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Young Poets Category: poets from anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years.
£2 per entry. £15 per 10 entries from schools. Go to payment page.
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Awards are in three categories- an Open category, which anyone in the world may enter;
- 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;
- a Young Poets category in the international Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets for an unpublished poem in English on a medical theme. Entries are open to young poets from anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years.
Co-organizers are medical professor Donald Singer and poet and translator Michael Hulse.
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