The Keats-Shelley Poetry and Essay Prizes 2025-26 are open. The Chair of this year\u2019s judging panel is author, critic and journalist Rupert Christiansen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poets are asked to write a new work inspired by this year\u2019s prize theme of \u201cDystopia\u201d or \u201cUtopia\u201d, chosen to mark the 200th<\/sup> anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley\u2019s novel The Last Man<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keats-Shelley essayists are invited to write\u00a0on any aspect of the work and\/or lives of the Romantics and their circles.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keats-Shelley Prize winners receive \u00a31000. Two highly commended entrants in each category will receive \u00a3500. All winning and highly commended poems and essays will be published in The Keats-Shelley Review<\/a> and on the Keats-Shelley website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deadline for all submissions is 10am (GMT) on Mon 2 February 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More information and how to enter both prizes visit www.keats-shelley.org<\/a> or click here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Have a question about 2025-26\u2019s Prize? Email: prizes@keats-shelley.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Keats-Shelley Poetry and Essay Prizes 2025-26 are open. The Chair of this year\u2019s judging panel is author, critic and journalist Rupert Christiansen. Poets are asked to write a new… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}