Our poetry competition for school pupils is back!
Do you enjoy writing poems in English or German? Would you like to see your poetry translated and published to a wide online audience, win tickets to the poesiefestival berlin (17–23 June 2023), and secure a place on a writing course at Berlin's prestigious Haus für Poesie? Would you like to win a poetry-writing workshop for your class?
The focus of this year's competition is future. We are thrilled that the UK poet and former Young Poet Laureate for London Selina Nwulu alongside German poet Karla Montasser (Haus für Poesie) will be judging our poetry competition this year. Nwulu's poem "We have everything we need" provides the starting point for the pupils' poems. This year, pupils can enter their responses to Nwulu's poem in English or in German. The poems should be a maximum of 30 lines long. Pupils must be aged between 13-18 years old at the time of writing.
Competition Information
About this year's judge: Selina Nwulu
Selina Nwulu is a writer of Nigerian heritage. Her poetry and essays have been translated into a number of languages and widely featured in a variety of journals, short films and anthologies, including the critically acclaimed anthology New Daughters of Africa. Her first chapbook collection, The Secrets I Let Slip was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She was Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-6, an award that showcases literary talent across the capital, and was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2019. She is also a 2021 Arts Award Finalist for Environmental Writing. Her debut full length collection, A Little Resurrection, also a Poetry Book Society recommendation, was published with Bloomsbury in 2022 and is an Irish Times book of the year.
