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The Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2022, held in partnership with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, has announced the winners in its adult category. Judges Malika Booker and Jason Allen-Paisant awarded first prize to Andy Dalgleish for his poem 'Red Borscht'. Sarah Leavesley was second with 'Counting the Cost', and Moria Garland came third with...
The Poetry Centre has joined with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to support their inaugural staff poetry competition. The competition is asking Trust staff to write 'a poem for our times’ - a poem that captures the spirit of now, spanning everything from where we are to where we want to be. Inspiration can be...
Lauren Pope has been named the winner of the 2021 Brotherton Poetry Prize. Lauren, an American living in Edinburgh, was selected from hundreds of entrants by a panel of judges including Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, Professor of Poetry at Leeds. She was presented with her award at an event last night, after each shortlisted...
The Brotherton Poetry Prize presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre is now open for entries.
The Annual Peace Poetry Prize Award Ceremony took place in the Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre of the University of Leeds on Tuesday 27 November 2018. John Battle, Chair of the Diocese of Leeds Justice and Truth Commission and Former MP for Leeds West, gave a short address on the theme of poverty and food inequality, and Helen...
Bi'an Award to be judged by Stand editors Elaine and Jon Glover and Director of University of Leeds Poetry Centre, John Whale.
Vahni Capildeo's new collection shortlisted for prestigious poetry prize and poem featured in The Guardian.
We are delighted to announce that Hannah Copley won first prize in this year's York Literature Festival / YorkMix Poetry Competition with her poem 'Haworth, 1855'. The poetry competition (now one of Britain's most prestigious), attracted 856 poems from more than 400 poets. Current Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Rachel Bower, also won fourth prize with...