Two Writing Competitions open to all: Poems and Essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Total Prizes over \u00a35000.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Winning entries will be published in the <\/strong>Keats-Shelley<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>Review<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prize Chair is the award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prize Deadline: 6th<\/sup> May 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2022\u2019s Poetry Prize theme is \u2018ELEGY<\/strong>\u2019. This commemorates two bicentenaries: the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley on 8th June 1822 and the composition of Adonais<\/em>, Shelley\u2019s elegy for John Keats, a year earlier in 1821.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information on how to enter, .<\/p>\n\n\n\n ESSAY PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Essays may be on any aspect of the writing and\/or lives of the Romantics and their circles. Word count 3000 words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prize Judges<\/strong>: Professor Sharon Ruston and Professor Simon Bainbridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Entry for essayists is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n POETRY PRIZE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Poets are asked to write on 2022\u2019s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize Theme of \u2018ELEGY\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poets can interpret \u2018Elegy\u2019 freely. Poems can be serious or comic, avant garde or traditional. They can be formal elegies or elegiac, but the Judges advise that works drifting too far from the theme will not be considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prize Judges<\/strong>: Professor Deryn Rees-Jones and Will Kemp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Entry to the Poetry Prize: \u00a310 per entry.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n . <\/p>\n\n\n\n Email: prizes@keats-shelley.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Writing Competitions open to all: Poems and Essays. Total Prizes over \u00a35000. Winning entries will be published in the Keats-Shelley Review. Prize Chair is the award-winning poet and biographer Fiona Sampson. Prize… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}