1. Poems must be no more than 50 lines in length and not have previously been published in any form. They must be by a living poet, written in English and should not be translations of another writer’s work.
2. Poems must be entered online and must be accompanied by payment of £6 for each poem entered, by secure online payment, or by cheque made payable to ’The Hippocrates Prize’ c/o The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 12 Chandos Street, London W1G 9DR.
3. The online submission site will ask you to select OPEN if your entry is in the international open category, or NHS if you are entering entered in the category for National Health Service related employees (current or former) or UK health students. The writer’s name should not appear in the text box for your poem(s). A poem entered in the NHS category may win a prize in the Open category, but a poem entered in the Open category may not win a prize in the NHS category. No poem may win more than one prize. Proof of NHS employee or health student status will be required from winners in the NHS category.
4. All entries must be received by 12 midnight GMT on 3rd February 2012. Results will be announced at a prize-giving event during an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at Wellcome Collection on Euston Rad in London, on Saturday 12th May 2012, and will be published on the Hippocrates Prize website, in an Anthology of winning poems, and in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, which is published by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, a major supporter of the 2012 Hippocrates Awards.
5. Copyright remains with the authors, but the Hippocrates Prize organizers reserve the right of first publication, both online and in a prizewinners’ anthology.
6. The 2012 Hippocrates Prize judges will read a long-list prepared by filter judges, and their decision will be final.
7. Entrants may take out a year’s subscription to The Warwick Review, an international quarterly of new writing, at a preferential rate of £15 (normally £25).
www.hippocrates-poetry.org
A new annual competition for a poem on a medical subject
2012 Competition rules
