The Stephen Spender Translation Prize
The Stephen Spender Prize is for all ages up to Year 13 (and beyond as there are other categories), and it caters of all languages.
The Stephen Spender Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation that celebrates the creativity of young people across the UK and Ireland – and their teachers! The Prize has categories for schools, teachers and individual young people, which welcome translations from all languages, as well as a special ‘Spotlight‘ strand that each year focuses on a different widely spoken language. Our Spotlight language for 2026 is Polish.
The rules are simple: translate into English any poem from any language, or a Polish poem from our Spotlight booklet, and produce an accompanying creative response . . . for your chance to join the Stephen Spender Prize hall of eternal fame!
For more information and details of how to submit your entry, please go to: Stephen Spender Prize – Stephen Spender Trust