The Laurel Prize 2025 is open for submissions for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025

By The Laurel Prize | Posted: Friday Mar 28, 2025

Applications close 1 May 2025

Prizes

This year there are five prizes:
First Prize will win £5,000.
Four additional finalists will receive £1,000 each.

Checklist for eligibility

• Entries must be collections of poetry, no fewer than 40 pages involving a nature, environmental or ecological theme

• Self-published collections are not eligible

• Entries must be submitted by publishers

• The entry period is 10 February – 1 May 2025

• Publishers must submit 4 hard copies of each collection & 1 digital

• Publishers may submit up to 6 collections

• Collections must have been published between 1 June 2024 and 1 May 2025 for eligibility – if not yet published then hard copy manuscripts will be accepted along with the digital copy

Find out more and apply: How to Enter - Laurel Prize for Poetry in Association with Poetry School