Entries closed for the 2015 Hippocrates NHS Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Entries have come from throughout the UK for the £5000 2015 Hippocrates NHS Prize for Poetry and Medicine.

Poet Rebecca Goss, author, journalist and broadcaster John Humphrys and Psychiatrist Femi Oyebode will be Judging awards in the 2015 Hippocrates Prize NHS and Open Categories.

Shortlisted and commended poets will be informed by email and information about the shortlist and the commended entries posted on the Hippocrates Prize website. The winners in the 2015 Hippocrates NHS and Open Prize will be announced by the judges on Saturday 23rd May in London at the Hippocrates Awards ceremony.

There has been a dramatic increase in international interest in recent years in the interface between medicine and the humanities in general, and in medicine and poetry in particular.  The Hippocrates Prize has attracted interest from over 60 countries since its launch in 2009.

To find out more about medicine and poetry, see our article in the Lancet, and recent features in The New Yorker and Times Higher Education. 

See updates on:
-  entries for the 2015 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize. 
-  entries for the 2015 Hippocrates Open International Prize

Entries from over 30 countries for the 2015 Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Entries for the £5000 2015 Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine have arrived from over 30 countries:  Australia, Belgium, Bhutan, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Phiippines, South Africa, Romania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and the USA.

Poet Rebecca Goss, author, journalist and broadcaster John Humphrys and Psychiatrist Femi Oyebode will be Judging awards in the 2015 Hippocrates Prize Open and NHS Categories.

Shortlisted and commended poets will be informed by email and information about the shortlist and the commended entries posted on the Hippocrates Prize website. The winners in the 2015 Hippocrates Open Prize will be announced by the judges on Saturday 23rd May in London at the Hippocrates Awards ceremony.

There has been a dramatic increase in international interest in recent years in the interface between medicine and the humanities in general, and in medicine and poetry in particular.  The Hippocrates Prize has attracted interest from over 60 countries since its launch in 2009.

To find out more about medicine and poetry, see our article in the Lancet, and recent features in The New Yorker and Times Higher Education. 

See update on entries for the 2015 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize.

Entries from 11 countries for the 2015 Hippocrates Young Poets Award for Poetry and Medicine

Entries for the £500 Young Poets Award in the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine have arrived from Australia, Canada, England, Nepal, Nigeria, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the USA.

The 2015 Hippocrates Young Poets Award will be judged by distinguished poet Simon Rae.

Shortlisted Young Poets will be informed by email and the shortlist posted on the Hippocrates Prize website. The 2015 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize will be announced in London at the Hippocrates Awards on Saturday 23rd May.

2015 Hippocrates Young Poets judge Simon Rae

Simon Rae is a poet, biographer, broadcaster, playwright and novelist. He presented Poetry Please! on Radio 4 for many years and wrote rude poems about politicians for the Guardian newspaper for even longer. In 1999 he won the National Poetry Competition after twice coming runner-up. His collection, Gift Horses, was published in 2006. More recently he has written three novels for younger readers, Unplayable, Keras and Medusa’s Butterfly, and his first detective story, Bodyline, comes out in spring 2015.

He presented Radio 4's Poetry Please for five years and wrote a regular topical poem for the Saturday Guardian for ten years. His most recent book of poems was Gift Horses, published in 2006 by Enitharmon Press.

The winner in the 2014 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize was Conor McKee from Sidney Sussex College Cambridge for his poem I Will Not Cut for Stone.

The winner in 2013 of the inaugural Hippocrates Young Poets Prize was Rosalind Jana from Hereford Sixth Form College in England, for her poem Posterior Instrumented Fusion for Adolescent Scoliosis.

There has been a dramatic increase in international interest in recent years in the interface between medicine and the humanities in general, and in medicine and poetry in particular.  The Hippocrates Prize has attracted interest from over 60 countries since its launch in 2009.

To find out more about medicine and poetry, see our article in the Lancet, and recent features in The New Yorker and Times Higher Education.  

See update on entries for the 2015 Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine.