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Call for Submissions 2025

Genre: Poetry

Topic: freely selectable

Language: English or German

Deadline: 1 May 2025

Length: 3 poems (max. 1,500 characters per poem incl. spaces)

People from: Heidelberg, Mannheim, the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Bremen, Nottingham (UK) and Dunedin (NZ)

It's that time again! We are hereby announcing the 8th Heidelberg Author Award 2025, this year for poetry. All persons living, studying or working in Heidelberg, Mannheim, the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Bremen, Nottingham (UK) and Dunedin (NZ) are welcome to submit their poems for the competition.

We look forward to your submissions!

Voting the genre for 2025

There were 112 votes...

3rd place: One-act plays (23.2%)

2nd place: Fairy tales (25%)

1st place: Poetry (47.3%)

The call for entries will follow soon.

The 2024 award winners have been announced!

This year, our award is centred on solidarity and community. We have united so many diverse and numerous voices in the shortlist that we don't want to decide which of them is the ‘most important’. That's why all shortlisted speakers will win this year! We want to promote the democratic diversity and collective strength of literary resistance against fascism and discrimination.

Congratulations to the winners!

Myra Anam
Niklas Werner Becker
Evalotta Flöttmann

Anna Hege
Philipp Hill
Yasemin Kamisli

Claudia Luz
Jasmin Schellong
Zehra Tuzkaya

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