Forward Prizes

The 2025 #ForwardPrizes has launched! We are now accepting submissions for all categories. Publishers, journals, competitions, event producers and performance poets - deadline is 16th March! 📅 🔗 Entry terms and how to submit here: buff.ly/3BTX8AR

ICYMI! We're excited for our Performance category to be including Deaf poets creating in British Sign Language. All entry guidance info is also available in BSL on our website: forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes…

🚨 You've still got time! (Just) 🚨 Forward Arts - the team behind #NationalPoetryDay & the #ForwardPrizes - is looking for a new Chair + Trustees to help shape the future of poetry in the UK. 🗓️ Deadline: 21 July 🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/Wbfg6Nn #ArtsLeadership

THANK YOU to our brilliant judges — @LisaDMKelly, Hannah Lavery, Sean O’Brien, @rommismith, and chair Sarah Hall — for their dedication and insight in selecting the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist from hundreds of outstanding entries. Your passion shapes the future of poetry! 🙏

The Forward Prize for Best Collection – We’re proud to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Collection! Five powerful books from some of the most compelling voices in poetry today. 👏 Congrats to the poets & publishers! 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection Introducing the future of poetry ✨Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection shortlist is here! Bold new voices. Brilliant debuts! #ForwardPrizes 2025 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ #JerwoodPrize #BestFirstCollection #PoetryAwards

The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written Announcing the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Written! Poems that move, resonate, and demand to be read. 👏 Huge congratulations to the shortlisted poets! 🔗Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

The Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Performed Live, powerful, unforgettable. 🎙️ We’re thrilled to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Single Poem – Performed! Experience poetry in its most dynamic form. 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ

Want to help more people find their voice? You've got just one week left to apply for Trustee or Chair roles at Forward Arts. buff.ly/Hoq0oYV #TrusteeOpportunity hashtag#ChairRole hashtag#BoardRecruitment hashtag#NonProfitLeadership hashtag#GovernanceMatters

The Forward Prizes 2025 Shortlist is nearly here! We’ll be revealing this year’s outstanding poets and collections on Thursday at 10am. Bold voices. Career-defining work. Poems that stay with you. Stay tuned. #ForwardPrizes #PoetryAwards #PoetryCommunity #UKPoetry

🎤 ANNOUNCING: Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 @southbankcentre 📅 Sun 26 Oct | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Southbank Centre 20 poets. 4 prizes. 1 unforgettable night of poetry! Tickets 🎟️: buff.ly/bQZucQ9 #ForwardPrizes #PoetryLive

Are you a stanza stan? ✨ The charity behind Forward prizes, Forward Arts Foundation, is looking for a new Chair & Trustees. Help shape the future of poetry. Amplify diverse voices. And keep creativity thriving. 👉👉 Apply by 21 July: buff.ly/Rc5fZ9M #ArtsLeadership

We’re excited to announce Jerwood Foundation's return as a sponsor of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. This year, they support the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, celebrating bold, new voices in poetry. #ForwardPrizes #JerwoodFoundation #PoetryMatters #DebutPoets

It's #IndieBookshopWeek and we're so happy to be celebrating with 2x Forward Poetry Prize Shortlisted Poet Michael Pedersen! This poem is a love letter ❤️ to independent bookshops and the many ways they enrich our communities and lives!

Tomorrow night at @coronettheatre! With the great @KMcCarthyWoolf and @iamrichardscott

We’re excited to announce that judge Sean O’Brien has co-translated a new book 'Eye of the Island' by Cape Verdean poet Corsino Fortes, with Daniel Hahn. 📅 Join the online launch: buff.ly/Zw1PFkt Published by @poetrytranslationcentre as part of their World Poet Series.

Join us at the Forward Arts Foundation as a Marketing & Development Coordinator! Drive our growth with creative strategies and elevate our educational and cultural impact. Apply by May 12, 2025. More details in this link: buff.ly/KrmbCdV

Calling all poets! ✏️ Forward prize-winner, @marjorielotfi is running a course of daily 30 min workshops every morning in April. A great way to kickstart your writing practice! eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-ta…

Very excited for an evening with Forward prize-winner @jallenpaisant, discussing his new book, The Possibility of Tenderness 🌱⛅️ Held at the wonderful @littlebookshops! April 3rd, get your tickets here: thelittlebookshopleeds.co.uk/collections/ev…

TWO WEEKS TO GO! You have until the 16th March to submit to the 2025 #ForwardPrizes. We're accepting submissions to all 4 categories: Best Collection, Best First Collection, and Best Single Poem - Written, and Best Single Poem - Performed. Submit now 👉 buff.ly/Pj0URp1

This Thursday! 🔥🔥