Entries are FREE for the Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine and will close for Young Poet entries (aged 14-18 years) at midnight on 1st March.
Entries for now closed for the 2019 Hippocrates international Open Prize and Health Professional Prize.
The Hippocrates Prize is now in its 10th year.
Judges for the 2019 Hippocrates international Open Prize and Health Professional Prize (deadline 15th February) are UK journalist and broadcaster Kate Adie CBE, DL, American-Mexican poet and author Jennifer Clement, International President of PEN International and physician Professor Dame Jane Dacre who is immediate past president of the UK Royal College of Physicians in London and a Professor of Medical Education.
New Zealand poet Elizabeth Smither will be
judge for the 2019 international Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry
and Medicine (deadline 1st March 2019). Entries are free for young poets
(aged 14-18) from anywhere in the world.
More on the 2019 Hippocrates Prize judges
Awards in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world. Previous winners have come from Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.
There are 3 categories in the Hippocrates Prize, all international.
- The Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine
- The Hippocrates Health Professional Prize for Poetry and Medicine
- The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine
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The winning poems and commendations in all the 2019 Hippocrates Awards will be published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology.
With a prize fund of £5500 for winning poems in the Open International category and NHS category, and £500 for the Young Poets Award, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. The prize comprises a 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize and 20 commendations in each of the Open and NHS categories and further commendations in the Young Poets Award. In its first 9 years, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 9000 entries from around 70 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia.
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Winner of 2018 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine: Taylor Fang, USA
Winner of 2018 FPM Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine: Joanne Key, England
Winner of 2018 FPM Hippocrates Health Professional Prize for Poetry and Medicine: Inez Garzaniti, USA
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Book orders:
- 2018 Hippocrates Prize Anthology
- 2018 Hippocrates Book of the Heart
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9th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Awards Symposium,
Chicago, Illinois on May 10 – 11, 2018
This event was held by The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Northwestern University in conjunction with the international Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Shortlisted and commended poets in the 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
- Health Professional category
Order the 2018 Hippocrates Prize Anthology
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February 7, 2018 Review on london.grip.co.uk of The Hippocrates Book of the Heart
"Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from the Hippocrates Press”.
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See interview with 2017 FPM Hippocrates Health Professional Award Winner Andrew Dimitri from Sydney and hear Andrew read It will make a fine hospital - featured as Poem of the Week in The Guardian.
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