The Jane Martin Poetry Prize is a key part of the College’s support for poetry and will be of interest to all those serious about literary excellence.
Girton College is delighted to invite entries for the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize. Now in its ninth year, the national prize for young poets (for those aged between 18-30 years) is a key part of the College’s support for poetry and will be of interest to all those who are serious about literary excellence.
The competition will be judged by experts drawn from across the literary world and academia. We are thrilled that this year the panel will be led by the poets Hilary Davies and Adam Crothers. The winner will receive a cash prize of £700 and will have an opportunity to give a reading at a celebratory event at Girton College, at which the prize will be awarded. There will also be a second prize of £300 cash.
The competition opens on 14th December 2018 and closes at noon on 1st February 2019
Please find the 2019 information pack and entry rules here
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Girton College is delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Jane Martin Poetry Prize:
Nina Powles was born in New Zealand, partly grew up in China and now lives in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Distinction) from Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry in 2016. Her poetry chapbook Girls of the Drift was published in 2014. Her debut poetry collection, Luminescent (Seraph Press, 2017) is a work of auto/biographical poetry exploring the lives of five women from New Zealand history. Her poems and essays have recently appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Poetry, Hotel, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is half Malaysian-Chinese and is Poetry Editor at The Shanghai Literary Review. You can hear Nina read some of her poems here.
Dominic Leonard studied English in Oxford and is about to begin an MA in Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. His poems and non-fiction have appeared in Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, The Scores, Disclaimer, Zarf, and elsewhere.
Previous winners:
2017 First Prize: Katie Hale; Second Prize: Andrew Wynn Owen
2016 First Prize: Isabel Galleymore; Second Prize: Nell Wilson
2015 First Prize: Theophilus Kwek; Second Prize: Charlotte Buckley
2014 First Prize: Alexandra Strnad; Second Prize: Penny Boxall
2013 Jen Campbell
2012 Jane Yeh
2011 Agnes Lehoczky and Emily Critchley
For any queries relating to the prize please email poetryprize@girton.cam.ac.uk
