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2023 Open Poetry Competition

28 February 202311 March 2025

First Prize £1000! Second and third prizes – £500 and £250 respectively. Plus £100 for a local poet. To be…

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2023 Young Poets Competition

28 February 202311 March 2025

First Prize £150. Second and third prizes £75 and £50. Plus a year’s subscription to the Poetry Society. Deanna Rodger…

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2023 Book for Children Competition

28 February 202311 March 2025

First Prize £750. Second and third prizes £300 and £200. Plus £100 for a local author. Rachel Hamilton is a…

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2023 Short Story Competition

22 February 202311 March 2025

First Prize £750. Second and third prizes £300 and £200. Plus £100 for a local author. Claire Fuller’s much anticipated…

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2022 Young Poets Results

18 October 202211 March 2025

Congratulations to our young poet Joe Wright winning this year’s competition. Day Break in Tarbert The har is deep and…

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2022 Book for Children Results

18 October 202211 March 2025

2022 Winners Our thanks go to the shortlist team, to Lucy Cuthew our 2022 Book for Children Judge and to…

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2022 Short Story Results

18 October 202211 March 2025

2022 Winners Our thanks go to the shortlist team, to Lucy Jago, our 2022 Short Story Judge and to all…

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2022 Open Poetry Results

18 October 202211 March 2025

Congratulations to Carolyn Gillespie for her winning entry Black Bird-Shaped Hole Black Bird-Shaped Hole Like the sleep-drunk teenager back home,…

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2022 Prize Winners announced

18 October 202211 March 2025

While our 30th Anniversary Festival was in full swing, we were delighted to hold our traditional Poetry and Prize Giving event…

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Not to be missed

17 June 2022

The last festivals seem to have hurried by in a flash and here we are, before we know it, on…

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