The Nature and Place Competition 2025

The University of Leeds Poetry centre is once gain delighted to be in partnership with The Rialto , the RSPB, and BirdLife Intenrational Cambridge Conservation Initiative on the 2025 version of this competition.

Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge Helen Mort. The deadline for submissions is: 1st April 2025. Prizes: £1000 First; £500 Second; £250 Third.

Further details of the rules of the competition and how to enter can be found here.

Judge

Helen Mort is a poet, novelist and non fiction writer. Her poetry collections Division Street, No Map Could Show Them and The Illustrated Woman are published by Chatto & Windus. Her memoir A Line Above The Sky won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature and the Banff Grand Prize in Canada. She’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Photo: Emma Ledwith Photography, 2023.