Poetry Space Prize 2024 – the winners
Thank you to everyone who entered this brand new competition. We were delighted to receive 32 entries for Category A and 25 entries for Category B.
Entries were shortlisted by Sue Sims, editor of Poetry Space and winners chosen by Patricia Brody who found it very hard to choose the winners as she was “blown away” by the shortlisted entries . They were all outstanding.
Marion Horton
Denni Turp
JOINT WINNERS: CATEGORY A
Marion Horton and Denni Turp
Both have now been invited to send in pamphlet length manuscripts for publication. The prize money has been split between Marion and Denni, with them each being awarded £50.
Sue Wallace -Shaddad, Marg Roberts and Jeff Skinner were shortlisted in this category.
Congratulations to them all.
Jayne Stanton
Dorothy Baird
JOINT WINNERS: CATEGORY B
Jayne Stanton and Dorothy Baird
Both have now been invited to send in pamphlet length manuscripts for publication. The prize money has been split between Jayne and Dorothy, with them each being awarded £50.
Derek Sellen, Irene Cunningham, and Ruth Aylett & MT Taylor were shortlisted in this category.
Congratulations to them all.
A special thanks to Patricia Brody for taking the time to read the shortlisted entries and select winners. Patricia is published by Salmon Poetry.
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Poetry Space Prize 2024 is no closed for entries.
This is a new annual competition with two categories:
A – for poets who would like to have their first collection published.
B- for established poets with collections already – pamphlet or full, looking to publish a new pamphlet collection
Guidelines:
- Please submit 10 poems of up to 30-40 lines each. We shall be looking for common threads within these poems rather than a totally random selection of your work.
- Poems must be your own work, not previously published in a collection of your own, and not AI produced. They may have been short or long listed in competitions as long as you have retained copyright.
- Please send by e – mail as a word attachment with poems all in one document
- No names or identifying marks on the individual poems please. The ten poem submission will be read anonymously.
- Please include a cover sheet with your full details : name, contact telephone or mobile number, e-mail, titles of poems.
- Please mark your entry Category A or B
- e-mail as a word attachment to susan@poetryspace.co.uk
The fee to enter will be £10 . This is a reading fee. Poetry Space operates as a not for personal social enterprise. All profits are used to publish more books and help widen participation in poetry. Editor, Susan Jane Sims runs a free online poetry group and a free writing for wellbeing group. As a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts she is committed to creating projects that encourage creativity within communities.
The editor of Poetry Space, Susan Jane Sims, will read all entries anonymously and create a shortlist. Our judge will be American poet, Patricia Brody who will read the top 5 entries in each category and select a winner for each category.
The winners will be invited to submit a longer manuscript for pamphlet publication and will receive £100 each plus 25 complimentary copies of their collection when published.
Poetry Space Prize will open for entries on April 30th and close on July 1st, 2024
We have been publishing beautiful pamphlet collections, anthologies, full collections since 2010, and more recently memoir and short stories. This is a small sample below. We have published over fifty titles.
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