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Wednesday 27 January 2016

Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine nearing 2016 deadline

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 Awards are for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme. The awards include a 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize and 20 commendations in each of the Open and NHS categories and further commendations in the Young Poets Award.

Deadlines Open and NHS entries closed on 1st February 2016.

Young Poets entries (age 14-18) remain open to the end of 29th February 2016.

If you wish to take part or to let poet friends know about the Young Poet awards there is still  time: entries for the 2016 Hippocrates Prize International Young Poet Award close at the end of the day (midnight in your local time zone) on 29th February 2016. 

The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine is supported by healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust and 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.

Awards will be presented on 15th April 2016 at a ceremony in London. Winning and commended poems are published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology.
 

The Hippocrates Prize is awarded 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.
2015 Hippocrates Prize winners: Maya Catharine Popa and Parisa Thepmankorn from the USA and Kate Compston from the UK
Since it was founded in 2009 by clinical professor Donald Singer and poet Michael Hulse, there has been interest in the awards from over 60 countries and widespread press and broadcast media coverage. There have already been entries for the 2016 awards from 36 countries and territories from Australia to Zambia.

Poet Wendy French, Harvard physician and poet Rafael Campo, and Gareth Powell, Secretary of the Methodist Church, will judge the 2016 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine international and UK NHS awards.

Hippocrates Prize organiser and Clinical Pharmacologist 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.”
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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