Young Poets Application 2025 - 2026

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  • Current Section 1: Your personal details
  • Section 2: Previous application details
  • Section 3: Availability
  • Section 4: About you and your creative practice
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Thank you for your interest in the Barbican Young Poets project. The following application form is to help us gain a better understanding of your experiences, motivations and overall, who you are. Your responses will be carefully considered as we select the final cohort.

Please complete the following 4 sections of the application form:

  1. Your personal details
  2. Availability
  3. Previous application details
  4. About you and your creative practice

We look forward to learning more about you. Good luck!

If you have any access requirements that prompt the need for an alternative form of application, please email [email protected] with ‘Barbican Young Poets Application Form’ in the subject line.

We encourage applications from people from groups that are currently underrepresented, including people from the Global Majority* and D/deaf and disabled people. We want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve.

*Global Majority is a collective term that refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities'.

1. Please fill out your personal details below.
2. Current Address
2b. Address during the dates of the programme (if different from your current address)