2021’s Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are Open
The theme of 2021’s Keats-Shelley Prizes is Writ in Water. The question we asked oursleves is: can you write in water? Watch the video below to find out…
2021’s Keats-Shelley Writing Prizes are divided into two competitions - Poetry and Prose - and into two age groups.
The Keats-Shelley Prize is open to all. Essays can be on any aspect of the writing or lives of the Romantics. For more information visit our Prize page here.
The Young Romantics Prize is for writers aged between 16 and 18. This year’s essay questions asks: ‘How can poetry – especially the poetry of John Keats and Percy Shelley – help us cope with adversity?’ To read more, please visit our Prize page here.
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2021’s Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are Open
The theme of our annual Poetry and Essay writing competitions is 'Writ in Water'. Watch our new trailer.
A Happy New Year Poetry Reading by Heart
To see in 2021, the Keats-Shelley Podcast recites John Keats' 'Bright Star' by heart, and ponders the 200-year history of his 'final poem'
Simon Barnes is Prize Chair of 2021’s Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes
The award-winning journalist and bestselling author returns for a second year
The Immortal Dinner CompetitionThe results are in!
Thanks to everyone who voted for the absent guest to whom John Keats would have most enjoyed chatting at the unique gathering, hosted by Benjamin, Robert Haydon in December 1817.
‘Writ in Water’: Giuseppe Albano Launches 2021’s Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes
Watch the Keats-Shelley House Curator announce 2021's theme and our Prize Judge from John Keats' grave in Cimitero Acattolico di Roma
And 2021’s Keats-Shelley Prize theme is…
A short video teaser for 2021's Keats-Shelley Prize theme
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Julian Sands reads poems by Keats and Shelley in Keats-Shelley House
200 years after John Keats set out from England on the Maria Crowther, Julian Sands reads works by Keats, Shelley and Byron in Keats-Shelley House