The Aryamati Poetry Prize
For social change and peace poetry
The Prize is on hiatus
Our poetry anthology 'Woman, Mapped' with the Rebecca Swift Foundation is now open for submissions.
The Aryamati Prize seeks poets who write for social change and peace. Past winners have included Ricky Ray, Morag Anderson, Katrina Dybzynska, Pippa Little, Jenny Mitchell and Sundra Lawrence.
Useful Info:
This poetry prize remembers Cambridge graduate, Olga Kenyon, (Aryamati), who had a rich career involving teaching, lecturing and writing. She was a well-respected non-fiction author, documenting and researching the history of women's writing and had eight books published. As a keen poet she won the North West Libraries poetry award in 2013 and her poem about Alderley Edge was displayed on the city's trams. The prize represents that which Aryamati held dear: reading widely, writing to her loved ones from across the globe by postcard and seeking critical feedback on her work, constantly aiming to improve her craft.
Links to Aryamati's Work:
Link to the Aryamati Bursary Fund
(British Association for Mindfulness-Based Approaches)
Due to Aryamati's generosity The Breathworks
Foundation awards bursaries each year to make sure
no-one is excluded from experiencing the life-changing
benefits of mindfulness due to financial hardship.
Aryamati had lived with chronic pain for many years
and experienced great benefit from the Breathworks
approach.
