Entries are now closed for the Open and Health Professional awards and for the Young Poets Prize in the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Poems have been submitted from 34 countries from Australia to the USA and from Iceland to India. The Open and Health Professional awards in the Hippocrates Prize are supported by medical society the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. The Young Poets Award for poets aged 14-18 years is supported by healthy heart charity The Cardiovascular Research Trust.
The Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem.
There is a prize fund of £500 for winning poems in the FPM-Hippocrates Open category and the FPM-Hippocrates health professional category.
Entries remain open for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
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Senior New York Times correspondent Anne Barnard, distinguished poets Keki Daruwalla and Anna Jackson and paediatrician Professor Neena Modi, President-Elect of the British Medical Association, are the judges for the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Ann Barnard, Keki Daruwalla and Professor Neena Modi will judge the Open and Health Professional awards and Anna Jackson judge the Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Co-organiser Donald Singer said: “We are delighted to have such strong international interest already and such a distinguished panel of judges for the 2021 Hippocrates Prize.”
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2021 International FPM-Hippocrates Open and Health Professional categories
In each category: 1st Prize £1000, 2nd Prize £500, 3rd Prize £250 and up to 20 commendations. Entries were received from 28 countries for these awards in the 2020 Hippocrates Prize.
There are a limited number of free entries for low-income writers for these awards.
Click here for how to apply for a free entry.
2021 Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Entries for this prize are free.The Young Poets’ Prize is for poets aged 14-18 years from anywhere in the world. The Young Poets’ Prize is £500. Entries were received from 19 countries for these 2020 Hippocrates Prize awards.
Awards in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world. Previous winners have come from Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.
The International Hippocrates Prize is awarded in three categories:
- a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Open category, which anyone in the world may enter. There are a further ~20 commendations in the Open category
- a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional category, which is open to Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations anywhere in the world involved in education and training of health professional students and staff. There are a further ~20 commendations in the Health Professional category
- closing date 1st March for the £500 award for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for an unpublished poem in English on a medical theme. Entries are open to young poets from anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years. There are further commendations in the Young Poets category. There is no entry fee for the Young Poets prize.
The Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine – winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that investigates the synergy between medicine, the arts and health.
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For more on the Hippocrates Prize email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com
Support for the 2021 Hippocrates Prize
The 2021 FPM-Hippocrates Open Awards and FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Awards are supported by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. The FPM, founded in 1918, is a UK medical society which publishes the international journals the Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health Policy and Technology.
The 2021 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by 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. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding preventable heart disease through educating school students.
