Rules
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The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an annual international award for an unpublished poem on a medical subject. 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. There is no limit to the number of entries.
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Poems should be entered online and must be accompanied by payment of £6 for each poem entered, by secure online payment.
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Applicants need to select the OPEN if your entry is in the international open category, or HEALTH PROFESSIONAL if you are entering entered in the category for Health Profession-related employees/students (current or former) from anywhere in the world. The YOUNG POET prize if open for poets between the age of 14-18 years.
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Entries for the 2024 Open and Health Professional Awards must be received by Midnight in your home country on 14 February 2024.
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The judges of the Hippocrates prize are listed on the website. Their decision is final.
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Short-listed poets in all categories of the Hippocrates Prize will be informed by mid-April.
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Results will be announced at the Hippocrates Awards during an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine in Ovideo, Spain on 23rd and 24th of May 2024. Winning poems will be published on the Hippocrates Prize website, in an Anthology of winning poems. Prize-winners will receive their awards.
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Copyright remains with the authors, but the Hippocrates Prize organizers reserve the right of publication, both online and in a prizewinners’ and other anthologies and publications of the Hippocrates Initiative.