2023 Open Poetry Competition
First Prize £1000! Second and third prizes – £500 and £250 respectively. Plus £100 for a local poet. To be…
2023 Young Poets Competition
First Prize £150. Second and third prizes £75 and £50. Plus a year’s subscription to the Poetry Society. Deanna Rodger…
2023 Book for Children Competition
First Prize £750. Second and third prizes £300 and £200. Plus £100 for a local author. Rachel Hamilton is a…
2023 Short Story Competition
First Prize £750. Second and third prizes £300 and £200. Plus £100 for a local author. Claire Fuller’s much anticipated…
Busy behind the scenes
Many thanks again to Jo Shepherd for capturing the ins and outs of the Festival.
The pictures speak volumes
As you can probably guess from Jo Shepherd’s comprehensive pictorial round-up of our 30th Anniversary Festival, it was a record-breaking…
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…
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…
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,…