Winchester Poetry Prize 2018
Winchester Poetry Prize 2018 celebrating the best in new writing
First Prize: £1,000
2nd Prize: £500
3rd Prize: £250
Judge: Liz Berry
Entry fee: £5 for first poem, £4 for subsequent poems
Winchester Poetry Prize aims to surprise and delight. Following its launch in 2016, the Winchester Poetry Prize is now an annual competition. This year we are very pleased to welcome Liz Berry as our judge.
In addition to receiving cash prizes winners will be invited to read at a special prize-giving event at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 6th October 2018. Winning and commended poems will also be published in a competition anthology.
A prize is also available for the best poem written by a Hampshire-based poet.
Liz Berry was born and brought up in the Black Country, and now lives in Birmingham. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2009, and an Arvon-Jerwood mentorship in 2011, and in 2012 she won the Poetry London competition. Her debut pamphlet, The Patron Saint of School Girls, was published by tall-lighthouse in 2010. Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014) was a Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at www.poetrybooks.co.uk recommendation, and winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is assistant poetry editor at Ambit magazine.
