2017 Hippocrates Prize

Young Poets Award and Shortlist

First Prize

Alzheimer’s Disease: A Proof by Exhaustion

Erin O’Malley
York, Pennsylvania, USA

Shortlisted Poems

Rachel Litchman (Interlochen, Michigan, USA)  Selected Autobiography: Children's Memorial Hospital

Roberta Maia Sher (London, England)  Melanoma

Izzy Wythe (Oundle, England)  Calpol in Adolescence

Vernon Yian (Singapore)  How light falls on the palliative bed

Joyce Zhou (Naperville, Illinois, USA)  Cancer as Self-Prescribed Stars