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This is a list of active literary awards from around the world with a prize of at least US$100,000 or equivalent. Although global in scope and comprising over 35 awards, most of the prizes are in only four currencies: United Arab Emirates dirham , Swedish krona , Euro , and United States dollar .
International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Open First Prize=£5000) Montreal International Poetry Prize ($20,000 prize for one poem) National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000) Arvon International Poetry Prize (biennial) Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry)
The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and author of short stories and former vice-president of the society. [1]
The first-place winner will receive $200, second place $100, third place $50 in Amazon gift cards. Poets may enter up to two original poems in each of the categories for which they qualify.
In 2005, the creation of the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards was announced at the WCU Poetry Conference. [2] Kean W. Spencer provided the initial endowment of $250,000. [3] Though not a poet himself, Spencer did win the prestigious Hopwood Award for poetry from the University of Michigan as a young man. [2]
The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
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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.