The
annual Hippocrates International Young Poets Prize for Poetry and
Medicine is a £500 (~USD 630) award for a single unpublished poem in
English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme.
Awards will be presented on Saturday 6th May 2017 at a ceremony
at Harvard Medical School. Winning and commended poems in the Young
Poets Prize are published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology.
Poet
and teacher Maya Catherine Popa from New York City will select the
winner.
Maya
said: "It is wonderful that a major prize with this kind of
international visibility aims to encourage young writers from around the
globe to express their interest in the interface between poetry and medicine."
She added: "As
a teacher of this age group, I am often amazed at the creativity,
insight, and skill of young writers. I wish more prizes aimed to
showcase and support these voices."
Prize co-founder Professor Donald Singer added: "The organisers are delighted that the
healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust is once again supporting this prestigious international award for young
poets."
The Cardiovascular Research Trust has as a major aim reducing preventable heart disease by
educating young people about healthy lifestyle.
Since
it was founded in 2012 by clinical professor Donald Singer and poet
Michael Hulse, there has been interest in the Hippocrates Young Poets
Prize from 15 countries, with winners and commended poets from Hong
Kong, the UK, the USA and Canada.
Catherine Wang: 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet winner
The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize 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.
For further information about the Hippocrates international Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Trust, email hearthealthycharity@gmail.com or call +44 7494 450 805
Maya Catherine Popa
is a writer and teacher in NYC. A 2015 Ruth Lilly finalist, she is the
recipient of the Poetry Foundation Editor’s Prize for review. Her poetry
appears in Tin House, Kenyon Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. Her
criticism and non-fiction appear widely, including in Poetry, Poets
& Writers Magazine, PN Review, and The Huffington Post. Her
chapbook, “The Bees Have Been Canceled,” is forthcoming from DIAGRAM New
Michigan Press in the U.S., and Southword Editions in Ireland, in
winter 2017.
Her awards include the Hippocrates Poetry Prize,
2nd place in the Magma Poetry Prize, 3rd Place in the Narrative N30B
Prize, the Gregory O’Donoghue Competition, Parallel Universe
Competition, and the Oxford Poetry Society Martin Starkie Prize. She
holds an MFA from NYU and an Mst in Writing from Oxford University,
where she was a Clarendon Scholar. She teaches at the
Nightingale-Bamford school in New York City.
With 1 week to go to the midnight 14th February deadline, there have
already been entries from 28 countries and 5 continents, from Australia
and New Zealand to throughout the USA, for the Hippocrates Prize for
Poetry and Medicine, which has an awards fund of £5,500 (~USD 7,500). Click here to find out more about the Hippocrates Prize and to enter online. In addition to the Awards Symposium at Harvard Medical School on Saturday 6th May, from 6.30pm Friday 5th May there will be a session at the Boston Museum of Fine Art (MFA) on "Poetry and Training the Eye"
involving objects and paintings inspired by health and illness,
followed by a Reception at the MFA, followed by the opportunity to stay
on at the MFA to enjoy the collections. The judges for the 2017
International Open and Health Professional Awards are Neal Baer,
Harvard-trained American paediatrician and Emma-award winning ER
producer, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Jorie Graham; Scottish Makar
(national poet) Jackie Kay; and Professor Owen Lewis, New York, USA.
The 2017 Hippocrates Young Poets Judge will be judged by poet Maya
Catherine Popa, New York City, USA (see details about the judges). In
the UK, clinical pharmacologist and prize co-founder Donald Singer
said: “We are delighted to have such a distinguished panel of poets and
health professionals as judges for the 2017 Hippocrates Prize.”
Harvard
physician and poet Rafael Campo added: “ The Arts and Humanities
Initiative of Harvard Medical School is very pleased to be supporting
this major international prize, and to be hosting the awards ceremony,
which will for the first time be presented in the USA.” The 2017
Hippocrates Awards are being organised in partnership with the Arts and
Humanities Initiative of Harvard Medical School. The Awards will
announced by the judges at a ceremony at the close of the 8th
International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine, to be held at Harvard
Medical School on Saturday 6th May 2017. Now in its 8th year, the
Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 8000 entries from around the world,
from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. All awards are
for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines of verse on a
medical theme. The International Open category is open to anyone
in the world to enter. There have been entries from over 60 countries
since the Hippocrates Prize was launched in 2009, with winning poets
from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, Norway,
South Africa, the UK and the USA. The International Health
Professional category is open to any in the world who is a Health
Professional employees, a health student or working in a professional
organisation or charity involved in education and training of health
professional students and staff or in supporting the care of patients. The
international Young Poet category: anyone in the world may enter who is
aged under 19 years and at least 14 years old on the date of the Awards
(6th May 2017). This £500 (~690 USD) award was launched in 2012. The
2017 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine is supported
by the healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust. Notes for editors For more on the Hippocrates Prize and the 2017 judges, contact +44 7494 450 805 or email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com The 2017 Hippocrates Prize is supported by: UK philanthropist Anthony Fretwell-Downing. The Arts and Humanities Initiative of Harvard Medical School. The Healthy Heart Charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust, founded in
1996, which promotes research and education for the prevention and
treatment of disorders of the heart and circulation.
There is still time to enter for the 2017 Hippocrates International Young Poets Prize for Poetry and
Medicine is a £500 (~USD 630) award for a single unpublished poem in English of
up to 50 lines on a medical theme.
Healthy heart charity the CRT is supporting 2017 Hippocrates International
Young Poets Award for Poetry and Medicine.
The healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust is delighted
again to be supporting this prestigious international award for young poets:
the CRT has as a major aim reducing preventable heart disease by educating
young people about healthy lifestyle.
Maya Catherine Popa
Poet and teacher Maya Catherine Popa from New York City will
select the winner. Awards will be presented on Saturday 6th May 2017 at a
ceremony at Harvard Medical School. Winning and commended poems in the Young
Poets Prize are published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology.
Since it was founded in 2012 by clinical professor Donald Singer and
poet Michael Hulse, there has been interest in the Hippocrates Young Poets
Prize from 15 countries, with winners and commended poets from Hong Kong, the
UK, the USA and Canada.
Catherine Wang: 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet winner
Previous Hippocrates Young Poet winners: Rosalind Jana (UK, 2013), Conor
McKee (UK, 2014), Paris Thepmankorn (USA, 2015) and Catherine Wang (Hong Kong,
2016).
The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize 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.
For further information about the Hippocrates international Young Poets
Prize for Poetry and Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Trust, email hearthealthycharity@gmail.com
or call +44 7494 450 805.
Maya Catherine Popa is a writer and teacher in
NYC. A 2015 Ruth Lilly finalist, she is the recipient of the Poetry Foundation
Editor’s Prize for review. Her poetry appears in Tin House, Kenyon Review,
Poetry London, and elsewhere. Her criticism and non-fiction appear widely,
including in Poetry, Poets & Writers Magazine, PN Review, and The
Huffington Post. Her chapbook, “The Bees Have Been Canceled,” is forthcoming
from DIAGRAM New Michigan Press in the U.S., and Southword Editions in Ireland,
in winter 2017.
Her awards include the Hippocrates Poetry Prize, 2nd place in the Magma
Poetry Prize, 3rd Place in the Narrative N30B Prize, the Gregory O’Donoghue
Competition, Parallel Universe Competition, and the Oxford Poetry Society
Martin Starkie Prize. She holds an MFA from NYU and an Mst in Writing from
Oxford University, where she was a Clarendon Scholar. She teaches at the
Nightingale-Bamford school in New York City.
