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The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as The High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature.
The 2010 Cheshire Prize for Literature will be awarded for a previously unpublished poem, or collection of poems, not exceeding 100 lines in total.
This major regional competition is funded by Bank of America, and administered by the University of Chester. The aim of the competition is to encourage the literary talents of new and existing Cheshire writers. The three main themes are Short Stories, Children's Literature and Poetry, which alternate each year.
This year's Competition is for Poetry.
- The prize-winner will receive £2,000.
- Additional prize-money of £750 will be awarded and the best entries will be published
Free-to-enter
It is one of the few free-to-enter literary competitions and offers not only a significant cash prize for the winner and runners-up but also the opportunity to be published. Each year the prize winners and the best of the short-listed entries from the previous year's competition are published in an anthology by Chester Academic Press.
As Simon Gotts, a previous winner, commented, "Most writers want two things, recognition and to be read. The Cheshire Prize offers the chance of both."
