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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

New deadline midnight GMT 3rd February for 2012 Hippocrates entries


Entries are now closed for the 2012 Hippocrates poetry & medicine awards for which there is a £5000 1st prize in each of 2 categories: an Open International Prize and UK NHS-related Prize for an unpublished poem of up to 50 lines written in English. Judging is anonymous.

For the 2012 awards there have been entries from 5 continents, from 32 countries from Argentina to Australia,
Brazil to Burma, Italy to India, South Africa to Switzerland, Ghana to Germany, France and Switzerland, and with poems submitted from 36 US states, 5 Indian states, 5 Canadian provinces, and from throughout the UK.

Hippocrates Prize winners will be announced by the judges, Marilyn Hacker, Martha Kearney and Professor Rod Flower, FRS,  at the Awards Symposium in London, Sat 12th May at the end of our 3rd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine.

A downloadable poster about the 12th May International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is available.

There is more information about the Hippocrates Initiative in earlier postings on this blog.


For further information, see the Hippocrates initiative website or email the organisers.

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