Foyles Young Poets Award
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he Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2024 is open! Enter your poems by 31 July 2024 at foyleyoungpoets.org
The
Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is one of the biggest and most
prestigious poetry competitions for 11-17 year olds in the world. Every
year, 15 top winners and 85 commended poets are chosen; together, they
represent some of the most exciting new voices writing today. This
year’s judges are the fantastic Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood, and
they can’t wait to read your poems! If you’re aged 11-17, send in your
poems for the chance to be among the 100 winners and kick-start your
writing career.
Poems can be on any theme and in any style but must be no longer than forty lines. You can submit as many as you like.
On Tuesday 12 March, we ran a webinar with the judges and a former winner where we introduced young poets to the award and heard the judges’ thoughts about writing poetry. If you missed the event but would like a link to the recording, please email fyp@poetrysociety.org.uk
Winners of the award receive a fantastic range of prizes to help develop their writing. The top 15 poets receive a mentoring package with opportunities to receive support and feedback on their writing; and all 100 winners receive a year’s youth membership of The Poetry Society and a bag full of books donated by generous publishers. The Poetry Society continues to support winners throughout their careers providing publication, performance and development opportunities, and access to a paid internship programme.
Since it began 26 years ago, the Award has kick-started the career of some of today’s most exciting voices. Past winners include Jay Bernard, Sarah Howe, Helen Mort, Phoebe Power, Caroline Bird, Mukahang Limbu, Richard O’Brien and many more incredible poets. You can read last year’s winning poems for inspiration in our new anthology, The Roots Belong to You (and anthologies from many previous years are available here), and scroll down to read the accompanying anthology of commended poems.
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