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It was launched by Carol Ann Duffy and The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2008, and was the first phase of the annual Manchester Writing Competition. Open internationally to writers aged 16 or over, the Manchester Poetry Prize awards a cash prize of £10,000 to the writer of the best portfolio of poems submitted.
The organization promotes poetry, conducts biannual contests, and organizes workshops, meetings, readings and other events. The Alabama State Poetry Society was founded in 1968 [5] and incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit in 2015. [6] The organization is based in Huntsville and is affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry ...
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry – offered by the Library of Congress for the best book of poetry published by a living U.S. author during the preceding two years Bollingen Prize – offered by Yale University every two years to one or more living U.S. poets for the best collection published in that period, or for lifetime achievement in poetry
The National Poetry Competition is an annual poetry prize established in 1978 in the United Kingdom. [1] It is run by UK-based The Poetry Society and accepts entries from all over the world, with over 10,000 poems being submitted to the competition each year. Winning has been an important milestone in the careers of many well-known poets.
Tower Poetry is an organisation affiliated with Christ Church, Oxford that aims to promote the reading and writing of poetry in young people. The group is funded by a donation from the late Christopher Tower, and run by Oxford University lecturer, Dr Anna Nickerson.
In 1910, the Poetry Society of America held its first official meeting in the National Arts Club in Manhattan, which is still home to the organization today. Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, a founding member and Secretary of the PSA, documented the founding of the Poetry Society of America in her autobiography My House of Life writing "It was not, however, to be an organization in the formal sense ...
But as South Africans celebrate 30 years of democracy this week, many educators and activists believe that there is a crisis hollowing out the country’s education system – a crisis that ...
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-5 Category – Grades 9 & 10. 1st place Amber Brown, Oak Park, IL for the poem "Moon" 2nd place Alexis Mia Phillips, Oak Park IL for the poem “Case# 07CR0304” 3rd place Damiano R. Girona, Newport News, VA for the poem "Natural Love" 2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8