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Entries from 29 countries for 2013 Hippocrates Prize
Entries are now closed for the
2013 Hippocrates Prize Open and NHS categories.
There were over 1000 entries from 29 countries: from throughout
the United Kingdon and USA, and from Canada to China, Switzerland
to South Africa, Netherlands to Australia and New Zealand.
In order of number of entries received, poems were from: United
Kingdom, USA, New Zealand, Ireland, India, Canada, Australia,
France, Switzerland, Nigeria, Germany, South Africa, Greece,
Belgium, China, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Sri Lanka,
Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Montenegro,
Zimbabwe, Poland, Macedonia and Spain.
Entries remain open for the
2013 Hippocrates category for Young Poets aged 14-18 years:
deadline 12 midnight GMT 1st March.
This new category in the Hippocrates Prize is for Young Poets from
anywhere in the world and is for an unpublished poem of up to 50
lines in English on a medical theme. The entry fee is £2 per
individual poem or £15 per group of 10 poems entered e.g. from a
poetry society or school.
The Hippocrates Prize for Young Poets will be judged by poet Clare
Pollard, who published her first collection of poetry at the age of
19. The Young Poets Prize offers an award of £500 for the best
poem. There will also be ten commendations.
Short-listed poets in all categories of the Hippocrates Prize will
be informed by mid-April.
Awards will be announced by the judges on 18th May, 2013 at the
Wellcome Collection in London at the end of the
4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine.