The Forward Prizes for Poetry program again announces four categories of shortlistees together worth £17,000 in cash awards.
UK: Shortlists Named for the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry
A total £17,000 in prize money goes to the winners of four categories in this year’s Forward Prizes for Poetry, shortlisted here.
The United Kingdom’s Forward Prizes’ 2023 Shortlists in Poetry
The UK-based Forward Prizes have added a performed-poetry category, the winners of all four shortlists to be named in October.
Forward Prize Names Its 2018 Winners in Its 27th Annual Round of Poetry Honors
Led by the American poet Danez Smith, this year’s trio of Forward Prize winners have collected a total £16,000 in prize money in the program’s Southbank Centre awards evening in London.
UK National Poetry Day and BBC Commission 12 New Poems on Change
Poetry can ‘focus our attention and become a small present (in both senses of the word) in the middle of change,’ says one of the 12 poets selected for the UK’s BBC Local Radio participation in Forward Arts’ National Poetry Day 2018.
The UK’s Forward Poetry Prizes’ Shortlists: ‘Nuclear War to Motherhood’
Ten books of poetry and five single poems are shortlisted for the 2018 edition of the UK’s Forward Poetry Prizes, which are to be awarded in London in September.
Forward Prizes for Poetry Open 2018 Submissions, Announce Jurors
Entries open today (January 22) in the Forward Prizes in for Poetry, with a total purse of £16,000 (US$22,175) divided among three categories of work. Writing from the UK and Ireland is eligible.
Forward Prizes for Poetry Awarded in the UK, for Best Collections and Poem
The three winners of the Forward Prizes for Poetry have been announced. Now in their 26th year, the prizes aim to raise the visibility of poetry and poets.
Forward Poetry Shortlists: African, Asian, US, British, Caribbean, and Irish Poets
With £16,000 (US$20,338) in prize money, Forward’s poetry awards honor single poems and collections, from new and familiar poets.