Kirsten Luckins joins to develop the Women Poets’ Prize The Rebecca Swift Foundation has appointed Kirsten Luckins as Project Manager for the Women Poets’ Prize. Luckins replaces Victoria Adukwei Bulley, who has been in the role since 2018. Now in its third year, the Foundation was established in 2018 in memory of editorial consultant and poet Rebecca Swift. Its free- to-enter …
Women Poets’ Prize Seeks Freelance Project Manager
The Rebecca Swift Foundation is recruiting for a new freelance Project Manager, to succeed our outgoing Project Manager Victoria Adukwei Bulley. Victoria has been an asset to the Foundation since joining us in 2018, helping us to build and deliver the first two rounds of the Women Poets’ Prize, and playing an integral part in the Prize’s development. She leaves …
Women Poets’ Prize Impact Evaluation
The Story So Far: Evaluative Highlights, Impacts, and Evidence of Need The Women Poets’ Prize Facilitated by the Rebecca Swift Foundation in support of the Foundation’s mission to nurture the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK, the Women Poets’ Prize is awarded biennially to three women poets at any career level. Receiving a monetary award of …
Women Poets’ Prize 2020 Winners Announced
The US-raised, Dundee-based poet Alisha Dietzman; the Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet Natalie Linh Bolderston; and the British-born Somali poet Warda Yassin have been announced as winners of the 2020 Women Poets’ Prize. The biennial prize – founded by the Rebecca Swift Foundation and supported by FMcM Associates – is awarded to three women writers who each receive a holistic package that combines …
The Women Poets’ Prize 2020 Winners’ Ceremony – Tickets Available NOW
Join us for the Women Poets’ Prize Winners’ Ceremony on Tuesday 17th November, 7pm-8pm. The Rebecca Swift Foundation is excited to reveal the three winners of the Women Poets’ Prize 2020 on November 17th in an online ceremony generously supported by Poetry School. Tickets are FREE and bookable via Eventbrite HERE. The event will last an hour. Audience members will …
Women Poets’ Prize 2020: Shortlist
The Rebecca Swift Foundation is excited to reveal the nine poets shortlisted for the Women Poets’ Prize 2020. After carefully working through a longlist of thirty poets, Women Poets’ Prize 2020 judges Malika Booker, Pascale Petit and Liz Berry met early last week to make final selections for the Prize. In what marks the last stage of selections – from …
Women Poets’ Prize 2020 Longlist
After receiving a record total of 734 applications, we are pleased to finally announce the Women Poets’ Prize 2020 longlist. As was the case with the inaugural 2018 Prize, we have been struck by the range and ambition of submissions. The courage, inventiveness and rigour with which women of various backgrounds and career stages are writing poetry is undeniable. Although representing only …
The Women Poets’ Prize 2020 Opens for Submissions
[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT] “Today we launch the Women Poets’ Prize 2020. The Women Poets’ Prize is open to all UK-based women poets, and we would really love to invite you all to submit your writing for consideration by our 2020 judges Liz Berry, Malika Booker, and Pascale Petit. You could be in with the chance to win £1,000 in cash, and …
Women Poets’ Prize 2020 Judges Announced
The Women Poets’ Prize 2020 will open for applications on July 2nd. In 2018, the inaugural year of the prize, we received 573 applications, and we’re looking forward to hearing from even more women poets this time around. We will be making various announcements in the lead-up to the open application period, the first of which is to announce our …
Forward Prize Shortlisting for Women Poets’ Prize Winner
It has been a brilliant year for all three of the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize winners, but in particular for rising star of the literary scene Nina Mingya Powles. Not only has Nina set up a micro-press, Bitter Melon, in part inspired by her Women Poets’ Press book-binding course at City Lit, but she has also won one major literary …