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Winchester Poetry Prize 2024

 

celebrating the best in new writing

We are pleased to announce the longlisted poets for Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 - as chosen by Clare Shaw

CHARLOTTE ANSELL: In the week before Christmas in the Leaving Care Team

ANNE BERKELEY: Growing Up

TOBY CAMPION: Nanti

OLIVER CARMICHAEL: You Ask About My First Kiss

ELIZABETH CHADWICK PYWELL: Guided Breathwork for Grief

SUE CHAMBERLAIN: She does not believe in the certainty of waking each day

AUDREY COTTERELL - Hansel and Gretel

LUCY CRISPIN: the two mercies

HILARY DAVIES: That Morning Over the City

KELLY DAVIS: Sister Bluebottle

JOSH EKROY: Plenty Hardstrung

ADELE EVERSHED: Hard Labour

NAOISE GALE: I tell her the needle exchange is like an old fashioned sweet shop

JORDAN HAMEL: How to Drive Drunk in a Flaming Paddock

NAIRN KENNEDY: Polar Bear

ADI KOSTORIS: Poet At The Front

VANESSA LAMPERT: Hummingbird Hawk-moth

JENNY MCROBERT: Oslo June 2022

MARY MULHOLLAND: Pietà

DAMEN O’BRIEN: The Armistice

RENCY RAQUID - They found us

MARTIN REED: Fudge

TIM SHORE: Wait for the Green Man

PENNY SHUTT: No evidence of harm

DEIDRE SULLIVAN: Buried Barbie

The winners will be announced live at a special prize-giving event, as part of Winchester Poetry Day 2024 on Saturday 5th October at The ARC in Winchester.

You are invited to join us, online or in-person,  at this exciting free entry event. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible and the event will have BSL interpreters.

Tickets are available here

Winning and commended poems will be published in an anthology that will be available at the event. 

You may pre-order now, for delivery direct to your door, from our online shop

(Pre-orders will be despatched from 7th October)

 

                                                                     

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