The Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize 2025

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Awarded for the best poetic response on the theme of Fear.

The winner and runners-up will receive financial support in the following amounts:

Prizes

First place: £3,000

Second place: £1,000

Third place: £1,000

Rules

Open to all nationalities.
Applicants must be aged 18 or above at the time of entry.
All entries must be written in English.
You can enter multiple prizes.
You may submit one poem or a collection of poems as long as all the poems in the collection speak to the theme.
There is a maximum of 500 words per entry.
There is no minimum required word count.
Submissions will be judged anonymously, so please ensure that your name does not appear anywhere on your work.
Due to the volume of applications, the judge’s decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into following the results.

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*Please note: we reserve the right to change any aspect of our prizes at any point during the submission or judging process, or to not award a prize if we wish.