Black in White Poetry Competition 2024

Have you experienced racism, prejudice, unconscious bias or microaggressions as a child or as a working adult?

Write about your experiences in a poem and enter this year’s Poetry Competition.
Your poem could help bring insight and illumination to the race-related issues that many people of colour experience, to build understanding and drive change.

This year’s categories:

1. Workplace racism
2. Childhood racism

You could win one of our top cash prizes per category:

1st prize
£250

2nd prize
£125

3rd prize
£75

The winning poems and around 25 highly commended entries will be published in a new Black in White book, to be launched in October during Black History Month, and the contributors will receive a complimentary copy.