The Liverpool Poetry Prize is returning for 2023, with a £1,000 star prize up for grabs.
Following their highly popular competition last year, 2023’s Liverpool Poetry Prize will celebrate neurodiversity.
Poetry unites us all, and whether you are writing from lived experience of neurodivergence or distilling your thoughts on a neurological condition, we want to hear from you!
Categories for the Liverpool Poetry Prize 2023
For 2023, the Liverpool Poetry Prize has two categories:
- UniVerse: open to anyone in the UK aged 18 or over, writing on any subject.
- NeurodiVerse: for a poem about a neurological condition, neurodiversity or neurodivergence.
They are pleased to announce that the ground-breaking Liverpool-born poet Brian Patten will be judging this year’s shortlisted poems.
Poems must be no longer than 40 lines, and you must be over 18 to enter (under 18s may enter with the written permission of their parent or guardian).
Entry costs £5, and the closing date is 12pm on March 31st, 2023. Entries received after the closing time will not be eligible. You are able to enter a maximum of one piece of work for each category.
To submit your piece of original poetry, please follow the instructions here. You can also attach your poem as a word document or PDF file.