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Our 2025 Poetry Challenge is launching on March 27 and will be open until September 26. Join us!
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 Togetherness Poetry Challenge. Visit our page below to read the shortlisted poems and celebrate the incredible talent showcased last year.
Our partnership with Hidden Literature
Discover our panel of poets
We have an extensive panel of professional and community-oriented poets who will be the judging panel.
Aminah Rahman
Elizabeth Cook
Shasta Hanif Ali
Arthur Smith
What is Steps to Togetherness?
The Togetherness Poetry Challenge is part of a Civil Society Consulting initiative, funded by National Lottery Community, called 32 Steps to Togetherness.
At Civil Society Consulting, we have created a ‘manual’ of 32 actions that we - as individuals or as community leaders - can take to build connections within and between our communities. We are building a community of grassroots leaders - who live and breathe the steps through their work in/with marginalised communities. Follow us on Instagram.
The Poetry Challenge is running alongside, to raise awareness and counter the threat of intolerance and racism, including faith-related hatreds.
Read the 32 Steps to Togetherness manual here.
Read why we think connection and community is so important here.
Contact us for more information.
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Prizes
The panel of poets will select six poems that best respond to the Togetherness theme. One prize for £500 and five prizes of £100 each.
1st prize
Ages 18 and over*
£500
*Age and resident on 7th March 2024.
Five further prizes
Ages 18 and over*
