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Young Critics Scheme
Deadline: Sun 18 Aug 2024
In 2022 and 2023, the T. S. Eliot Prize (the most valuable prize for new poetry collections in the UK and Ireland) and Young Poets Network, The Poetry Society’s leading platform for poets aged up to 25, ran an exciting new collaboration to support the next generation of poetry reviewers: the Young Critics Scheme
This year’s scheme follows a hugely successful first two years, in which two cohorts of Young Critics’ video reviews were seen over 60,000 times and shared online by readers, publishers, poets and critics. Several of the Young Critics have since been invited to review for leading magazines including The Poetry Review, Poetry London and Magma.
The ten selected participants will attend four online workshops in October and November 2024 on reviewing poetry, editing and video-making, including workshops led by critics Helen Bowell and Isabelle Baafi. They will be assigned one book from the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 shortlist in early October to review, and submit a video review by 20 November 2024.
No previous reviewing or poetry writing experience is required. Applications from writers underrepresented in poetry reviewing are encouraged, including those from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds; d/Deaf and disabled writers; working class writers; and LGBTQ+ writers.
Find out more here.
Applications for the 2024 Scheme are open until Sunday 18 August 2024.
Additional Information:
Location:
UK, Republic of Ireland
Region(s):
Republic of Ireland, UK
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