2025 Disabled Poets Prize
The 2025 Disabled Poets Prize is now open for entries, judged by Jamie Hale, Polly Atkin and Khairani Barokka.
About the Prize
he UK’s first Disabled Poets Prize was launched in 2023 and looks to find the best work created by UK-based deaf and disabled poets, in written English and in British Sign Language.
Set up by Jamie Hale, the Jerwood Poetry Fellow 2021-22 and award-winning poet, the Disabled Poets Prize is a collaboration between Spread the Word, Verve Poetry Press, and CRIPtic Arts in partnership with The Literary Consultancy and Arvon Foundation.
Deaf and disabled poets face significant barriers to developing their careers. The Disabled Poets Prize brings the work of the winning writers to new prominence, focusing attention on the exceptional work being produced by deaf and disabled writers. It is the first poetry prize in the UK specifically for deaf and disabled poets.
Judging these awards has been one of the high points of my career, and I am so excited to see what the winners do next
Jamie hale
