Welcome to Winchester Poetry Festival
Winchester Poetry Festival - 10-12 October 2025
Winchester Poetry Prize 2023
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celebrating the best in new writing
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We are pleased to be able to announce that the following poems have been selected by our judge Zaffar Kunial as the longlist for the 2023 Winchester Poetry Prize.
JANICE BOOTH: Still Life with Flowers
ISABELLE BAAFI: Path of Least Resilience
NIA BROOMHALL: Say Her Name Right
RACHEL CLEVERLY: Portrait of a Girl as Spinach
RACHEL CLEVERLY: The Year Prickled
ALEXANDRA CORRIN-TACHIBANA: Skinship (a zuihitsu)
PAMELA CROWE: Cloche
LUCY DIXCART: Summer Job
CATH DRAKE: Summer Full Moon
ZOË GREEN: Sweet Chestnuts
SUSAN E. HOLLAND: Home
LUISA A. IGLORIA: The First Surviving Photograph of the Moon
YASMIN INKERSOLE: Nefis
EMILIE JELINEK: My Father Washes His Hands of Me
JOAN McGAVIN: A Long Answer To a Short Question
MARK McGUINNESS: The Maze
PAUL McMAHON: The Demolished Exorcism Room
OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA: Animal Song
STEPHANIE POWELL: Touch free wash
JULIE SHERIDAN: Grandmother's Palindrome
FRANCINE VAN DEN BERG: A Night At the Proms
MADELEINE WURZBURGER: Insect Pressed On a Page of ‘Hymn to Life’ by Nazim Hikmet
DJANGO WYLIE: bruised chaplains
The winners will be announced live at a special prize-giving event on Sunday 15 October 2023 at the ARC as a part of the Winchester Poetry Festival 2023.
All are welcome to attend the prize-giving. Places are free but should be booked.
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Winning and commended poems will also be published in an anthology which will be published on the day and is available to pre-order via our online shop.