Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize 2023

This competition has been set up in memory of the late Professor Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014 - pictured above), poet and Fellow of Wolfson College, and is open to any student currently enrolled in postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. The funding for the prize has been provided by generous donations to the English Faculty and to Wolfson College (Oxford) from Old Possum's Practical Trust and from the Derek Hill Foundation.

The prize will be awarded, provided there is an entry of sufficient merit, for the best poem in English verse not exceeding 40 lines in length on the subject of 'Disgrace'. The value of the prize is £1,000, and entrants may submit up to three poems. The judges will include the Oxford Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald.

Entries should be submitted by email with the subject "Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize" to the English Faculty Office, not later than Friday of 8th week, Michaelmas Term 2022.

Authors should conceal their names and identify their entry documents with a motto; multiple entries should be numbered. Please complete the contact details form and submit this alongside your entry.

The award ceremony will be hosted by Wolfson College on Wednesday 18 January 2023.