The organisers of the international Poetry Book Awards have announced the shortlist for their 2024 contest. Judge, Mick Evans has selected the following books. It was such a close call with a few poets and the list could easily have been 11 or 12 but our shortlist ‘Top 10’ for this year is below: Shortlist (in no particular order) A Party Business – Roger Elkin Adam in the Garden – AE Hines Cities Within Us […]
The 2024 winners of the 18th International Welsh Poetry Competition were announced on their website. Award-winning poet and judge, Kathy Miles said, “Judging a poetry competition is always a humbling experience, not just because of the exceptional standard of the work, but because so many of the poems let you into the private and personal world of the poet. Over 700 poems were submitted to the competition, and judging them was a daunting task. Subjects […]
The international Welsh Poetry Competition is now open and accepting entries! In our 18th contest, we are offering the following prizes: 1st Prize – £500 2nd Prize – £250 3rd Prize – £100 We are also delighted to announce that award-winning poet, Kathy Miles, will judge our 2024 competition. Winner of the Bridport Prize and many other contests Kathy is one of Wales’ best writers. Her new collection, Vanishing Point is to be published by Palewell Press. Closing […]
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self-published authors or books published by small, truly independent presses. The 2024 contest is now open and accepting entries! 1st Prize – £500 2nd Prize – £250 3rd Prize – £100 Winners also get: Great Amazon & Goodreads reviews Earn recognition from having an award-winning book Certificate, logo to use on books and future work […]
Congratulations – Megan Fernandes! The winners of the 4th annual contest were as follows: 1st Prize I DO EVERYTHING I’M TOLD – Megan Fernandes, Portland, Oregon, USA Megan Fernandes is a South Asian American writer living in NYC. She was born in Canada and raised in the Philadelphia area. Her family are East African Goans. “A seething, edgy, mystical, surgically precise collection of love songs that hops from continent to continent. From L.A. to Lisbon, from Paris […]
The organisers of the International Welsh Poetry Competition, the biggest poetry contest in Wales, have announced the winners from the 2023 competition. The competition was judged by Mick Evans, whose excellent comments can be found on the contest website. The 17th Competition 1st Prize Pegasus Rising – Jenny McRobert (Sutton Scotney, Winchester, England) Jenny McRobert was born in Hackney, London and now lives in Winchester. Making the transiton from Psychologist to poet has been […]
Wales‘ biggest (and some would say best) poetry contest is now open again and accepting entries! The International Welsh Poetry Competition returns with judge, Mick Evans, picking the winners. This will be our 17th year of running the competition and we expect a bumper year of entries. Entry forms will also be winging their way to libraries and writing circles all over the UK during January although you can of course just download one from our website in […]
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self published authors or books published by small, truly independent presses. The 2023 contest is now open and accepting entries! 1st Prize – £400 2nd Prize – £200 3rd Prize – £100 Winners also get: Great Amazon & Goodreads reviews Earn recognition from having an award-winning book Certificate, logo to use on books and future […]
The organisers of the international Poetry Book Awards have announced the winners of the 2022 contest. Congratulations to Rufus Mufasa for her collection ‘Flashbacks & Flowers‘. Chosen by our judge, famous Welsh writer John Evans as this years winner! 1st Prize – Flashbacks & Flowers – Rufus Mufasa 2nd Prize – Siarad – Caroline Reid 3rd Prize – We Are The Winter People – Jenny Rowbory Judges comments: The quality of the work produced by all the entrants this […]
The Poetry Book Awards is an annual, international book award given to the best poetry books produced by indie writers, self published authors or books published by small, truly independent presses. The 2022 contest is now open and accepting entries! 1st Prize – £300 plus a one-year subscription to PN Review 2nd Prize – £150 3rd Prize – £75 Winners also get: Great Amazon & Goodreads reviews Earn recognition from having an award-winning book Certificate, logo […]