Poetry competition for 16-18 year olds

Enter the Tower Poetry Competition

The 22nd Christopher Tower Poetry Competition will open for entries on 7 October 2021, with students between 16-18 years of age challenged to write a poem on the theme ‘Dream.’

About the Competition

The Tower Poetry Competition offers the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, and is open to students between 16-18 years of age who are educated in the UK.

The competition is judged anonymously by two guest judges, who are different each year, and the Christopher Tower Student. Each year the theme is chosen with the intention of giving entrants free rein to interpret it as widely as they like.

The competition is free to enter, and offers a first prize of £3000. Schools of prizewinners are awarded an additional £150, intended for investment in further study of poetry and literature.

The 22nd Christopher Tower Poetry Competition will

The competition will close at 12 noon on 2 March 2022. 

Click the link to find out more:

https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/research-and-academia/enter-tower-poetry-competition