FORWARD PRIZES FOR POETRY 2025
Please ensure you have read the Entry Guidelines on our website.
If you have technical difficulties completing the online entry form, please email support@submittable.com.
If you are unable to complete the online entry form for other reasons, please email prizes@forwardartsfoundation.org before Wednesday 1 March 2025 to make alternative arrangements.
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are organised by Forward Arts Foundation, a charity that celebrates excellence in poetry and increases its audience. Its initiatives include National Poetry Day – a mass celebration of poetry that falls this year on Thursday 2 October 2025 – and the Foprward Prizes for Poetry. Find out more on our website
NOTE: Please note this Prize Category is NOT open for self-submission.
A prize of £10,000 will be given to the author of the best collection of poetry published in the UK or Republic of Ireland between 19 September 2024 and 18 September 2025.
Please ensure you have read all entry guidelines on the Forwards Arts Foundation website.
NOTE: Please note this Prize Category is NOT open for self-submission.
A prize of £5,000 will be given to the author of the best debut collection of poetry published in the UK or Republic of Ireland between 19 September 2024 and 18 September 2025.
Please ensure you have read all entry guidelines on the Forwards Arts Foundation website.
NOTE: Please note this Prize Category is NOT open for self-submission.
A prize of £1,000 will be given to the author of the best written single poem that has been published in a newspaper, periodical or magazine in the UK or Republic of Ireland between 5 March 2024 and 4 March 2025, or has been the winner of a poetry competition with a prize awarded between the same dates.
Please ensure you have read all entry guidelines on the Forwards Arts Foundation website.
NOTE: Please note this Prize Category is NOT open for self-submission. For self-submissions for the 'Performed' category please select the 'Self-submission' portal
Please ensure you have read all entry guidelines on the Forwards Arts Foundation website.
A prize of £1,000 will be given to the author of the best new performance or a new poem to camera performed or produced between 5 March 2024 and 4 March 2025.
NOTE: This is the ONLY SELF-SUBMISSION category.
Please ensure you have read all entry guidelines on the Forwards Arts Foundation website.
A prize of £1,000 will be given to the author of the best new performance or a new poem to camera performed or produced between 5 March 2024 and 4 March 2025.