Competitions Winners
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2023 Short Story Results
We would like to congratulate all our winners and thank everyone who entered the Short Story Competition this year. Congratulations to Lucille Agapov for her winning entry The Parts We Play. 2023 Winners Our thanks also go to the shortlist team and to Claire Fuller, our 2023 Short Story Judge. Without them we wouldn’t be…
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2023 Open Poetry Results
We would like to congratulate all our winners and thank everyone who entered the Open Poetry Competition this year. Congratulations to John Gallas for his winning entry horsebreezes. horsebreezes each earlymorning Tui Spenceparked at the coldshade end of River Loop& walked the 2 miles along Brethers Fencewhere the giant horses grazed by the waters edge…
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2023 Prize Winners Announced
In 2023 our winning entrants walked away with a magnificent £4825 between them. Perhaps even more importantly they were rewarded with the confidence that their submissions had been read and approved by well-known and highly respected judges, amongst the finest in their fields. This level of recognition is not easily won; entrants submit to Wells…
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2022 Young Poets Results
Congratulations to our young poet Joe Wright winning this year’s competition. Day Break in Tarbert The har is deep and dark at dawn.Cutters cling to the crests of cliffs,Turn to Tarbert,Pick paths through shallow alliesWith bounties from the Sound. Cold fish spill in silver slicksOn wet concrete. Custard-yellow fishermenTramp toward the day’s first Scotch. Mackay…
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2022 Book for Children Results
2022 Winners Our thanks go to the shortlist team, to Lucy Cuthew our 2022 Book for Children Judge and to all those entrants who made the competition so tough for the team. Lucy Cuthew is the author of more than 30 books for children. Her debut novel Blood Moon (Walker Books), a YA verse novel, was nominated…
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2022 Short Story Results
2022 Winners Our thanks go to the shortlist team, to Lucy Jago, our 2022 Short Story Judge and to all those entrants who made the competition so tough for the team. The winning entries can be downloaded and enjoyed from the above table. Lucy Jago is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a…
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2022 Open Poetry Results
Congratulations to Carolyn Gillespie for her winning entry Black Bird-Shaped Hole Black Bird-Shaped Hole Like the sleep-drunk teenager back home, in bed,the dawn is pallid and reluctant.Edges are still blurred,and down the lane,the skeleton beeches seem insubstantial.I could wipe them away, like fog from my glasses,if I wanted to.I am waiting for the dog, who…
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2022 Prize Winners announced
While our 30th Anniversary Festival was in full swing, we were delighted to hold our traditional Poetry and Prize Giving event – in Cedars Hall on Monday 17 October. The time had come to announce the Competition winners! The event was well attended, and some 39 poems were read out, 14 from the Young Poets section and a…
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2021 International Competition Results
Our 2021 International Competitions attracted more entries than ever before with our poetry competitions alone bringing in more than 1000 poems between them. We are delighted to reveal below the winning entries which were announced at the Poetry Readings and Prize Giving event which took place during the Festival in Cedars Hall on Monday 18…
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2020 International Competitions: Winners
Congratulations to all the winners, and we would also like to thank everyone who entered. You can watch a recording of our 2020 Poetry Reading and Prize Giving event. Open Poetry Competition Our 2020 Open Poetry Competition judge Sean Borodale was selected in 2014 as a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet. His first collection,…