The Tower Poetry Competition 2022 Online Launch

Event date
Event time
12:00 - 12:00
Venue
Christ Church
St Aldates
Oxford
OX1 1DP
Event cost
NA
Target audience
Students
Age range
Age 16-17 (year 12), Age 17-18 (year 13)
Booking
Not required

The Tower Poetry Competition offers the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, and is open to students between 16-18 years of age who are educated in the UK.

The competition is judged anonymously by two guest judges, who are different each year, and the Christopher Tower Student. Each year the theme is chosen with the intention of giving entrants free rein to interpret it as widely as they like.

The competition is free to enter, and offers a first prize of £3000. Schools of prizewinners are awarded an additional £150, intended for investment in further study of poetry and literature.