Chancellor’s Poetry Prize

General

1. The Chancellor’s Poetry Prize: Place is open to any current undergraduate or postgraduate student at Newcastle University.
2. The closing date of the competition is 4 April 2025. All entries must be received by submission to https://forms.office.com/e/8F6SD6MqvC by no later than 10.00pm (UK time) on this date; entries will receive a receipt at the time of submission.
3. Any entries arriving after this time will not be considered. 
4. Entrants may only enter one poem.
5. Entries will not be returned, so please keep a copy. 
6. Under no circumstances can alterations be made to poems once entered. 
7. Entrants may withdraw entries from the competition.
8. Newcastle University will not accept responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in transit, regardless of cause, including (for example) technical malfunction, or systems, network, server or computer hardware or software failure of any kind.
9. Proof of transmission will not be accepted as proof of receipt of entry to the competition.
10. Telephone or email confirmation of receipt is not available. Newcastle University is not able to confirm the content of documents submitted, so please ensure you submit the correct version.
11. The competition organisers reserve the right to change the judging panel without notice and not to award prizes if, in the judges’ opinion, such an action is justified.
12. Due to the number of entrants, we are unable to respond individually to submissions. 
13. The judge’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into concerning this decision.

Poems

1. All entries are judged anonymously, and the poet’s name must not appear on the poem itself – please include only your student number in the top right-hand corner.
2. All poems must have a title and must be between 10 and 30 lines in length. The title is not included in the line count, nor are any blank spaces to indicate stanza or section breaks. Entries should be on the theme of ‘making it new’ and can be written in any style or form.
3. Poems must be the entrant’s original work. Entries submitted posthumously or on behalf of another person will not be eligible.
4. Entries must not have been published, self-published, published on a website, blog, online forum, nor on social media such as X, Facebook or Instagram, nor broadcast, nor have won or been placed (as in 2nd, 3rd, runner-up, etc.) in any other competition before the deadline.
5. Handwritten and postal entries cannot be accepted.
6. The file type of online entries must be .pdf.
7. Entries must be written in English as the primary language. 

Winners

1. The winner of the 2025 Chancellor's Poetry Prize will receive £250, paid via bank transfer.
2. Prize-winners will be notified by email in May 2025. Only successful entrants will be notified.
3. The winner will be expected to provide a short biography and hi-res photograph. 
4. The copyright of each poem remains with the author. However, authors of the winning poem, by entering the competition, grant University, the right in perpetuity to publish and/or broadcast their poem.

Publicity and Personal Information

1. Personal information (including any photographs) supplied by entrants when entering or winning this competition will only be used by the University for marketing and promotional activities.