Entries are now open for the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English.
Deadline for entries is 31st January 2012.
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 each category there is also a 2nd prize of £1,000, 3rd prize of £500, and 20 commendations each of £50.
Medicine
may be interpreted in the broadest sense. Themes for prize entries may
include the nature of the body and anatomy; the history, evolution,
current and future state of medical science; the nature and experience
of tests; the experience of doctors, nurses and other staff in hospitals
and in the community.
Other
topics might include experience of patients, families, friends and
carers; experiences of acute and long-term illness, dying, birth, cure
and convalescence; the patient journey; the nature and experience of
treatment with herbs, chemicals and devices used in medicine.
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.
Awards will be presented in London on Saturday May 12th 2012, at the 3rd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, to be held at the Wellcome Collection rooms in London.
Poems entered are to be of no more than 50 lines and submitted online, accompanied by an entry fee (£6 per poem).
3 comments:
Ooh, I fancied this one last year and never got round to it! Cheers.
I entered last year but never got anywhere. Which is not really a surprise.
I entered to with no success at all, the poem Lump which I read here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0d_eKUdjE I read the winners and they really weren't my type of thing so I won't do it again this year.
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