Welcome to Winchester Poetry Festival
Winchester Poetry Day will take place Saturday 5 October 2024.
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.
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)