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The Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025 is an annual prize for unpublished poems written by adults for children aged 7–11.
This year’s judge is Kate Wakeling whose work has been awarded the CLiPPA prize for children’s poetry and nominated for the Carnegie Medal and has been praised as ‘clever, funny, inspiring’ (The Sunday Times) and ‘both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful’ (Guardian). Her collections have variously been selected as Books of the Month in the Guardian, The Scotsman and The Sunday Times.
The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. The poems can be on any subject.
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