Austrian Cultural Forum

Winning translations have now been chosen and will be announced at a virtual Celebration Event next Wednesday 19th November, 6.00 – 7.30 pm (GMT).

Full details and the link to register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-spender-trust-2025-celebration-event-tickets-1848314310859.

Stephen Spender Prize 2025 | Open for entries from 1 May until 31 July 2025.

The Stephen Spender Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation that celebrates the creativity of young people across the UK and Ireland – and their teachers! The Prize has categories for schools, teachers and individual young people, which welcome translations from all languages, as well as a special ‘Spotlight‘ strand that each year focuses on a different widely spoken language.

Entry guidelines:

For 2025, the rules are simple: translate into English any poem from any language, or a Portuguese poem from the Spotlight booklet, and produce an accompanying creative response - for your chance to join the Stephen Spender Prize hall of eternal fame!

Teachers can now register here to involve their students, and more guidance can be found on our Guide for Teachers page. All those who register will receive regular resources to help them to integrate creative translation into their teaching.

Full information on how to enter can be found on the Stephen Spender Prize homepage.