THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
Deadline: 31 Mar 2025THE CATERPILLAR POETRY PRIZE 2025
The prize is for unpublished poems written by adults for children aged 7–11. Entrants are welcome from anywhere in the world. There is an entry fee of €15 per poem. The closing date is 31 March 2025
PRIZES
1st prize €1,000 plus a week at Circle of Misse in France
2nd prize of €500
3rd prize of €250.
The winning poems are also published in the Irish Times online.
THE JUDGE: Kate Wakeling’s work has been awarded the CLiPPA prize for children’s poetry and nominated for the Carnegie Medal and has been praised as ‘clever, funny, inspiring’ (The Sunday Times) and ‘both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful’ (Guardian). Her collections have variously been selected as Books of the Month in the Guardian, The Scotsman and The Sunday Times.
‘A poet to watch, her work an April rainbow of freshness and surprise.’ Guardian
Links
Prize details: https://www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=9398&page=27
Entry online: https://www.themothmagazine.co.uk/caterpillar/poem1.asp?ID=
Entry form to print: https://www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=7777&page=17
Rules: https://www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=7254&page=14
Kate Wakeling: http://www.katewakeling.co.uk/
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