Welsh Poetry Competition Explained
The International Welsh Poetry Competition is an annual English language poetry award and the largest[1] of its kind in Wales. The contest was founded in 2007 by Welsh writer, poet and photographer Dave Lewis.
It was launched on St David's Day 2007 in Clwb-Y-Bont, Pontypridd.
The competition's judges, who include Welsh poets, have included John Evans, Mike Jenkins, Eloise Williams, Sally Spedding, Kathy Miles (former Bridport Prize winner) and Mick Evans.
The organiser, Dave Lewis[2], has also edited and published three anthologies of all the winners: The First Five Years,[3] Ten Years On[4] and The Third One.[5] In 2020 he also founded the Poetry Book Awards, which seeks to reward poets with a book length collection.
Past winners
- 2024 Gill Learner (Reading, England), Once Upon A Time[6]
- 2023 Jenny McRobert (Winchester, England), Pegasus Rising[7]
- 2022 Jennifer Hetherington (Fishermans Reach, Australia), Cross Words[8]
- 2021 Estelle Price (Wilmslow, England), iii[9]
- 2020 Sheila Aldous (Devon, England), The Debt Due[10]
- 2019 Damen O'Brien (Queensland, Australia), The Map-Makers Tale[11]
- 2018 Judy Durrant (Victoria, Australia), Prayer To A Jacaranda[12]
- 2017 Rae Howells (Swansea, Wales), Airlings[13]
- 2016 Tarquin Landseer (London, England), Blackfish[14]
- 2015 Mick Evans (Carmarthenshire, Wales), Map Makers[15]
- 2014 Kathy Miles (Cardigan, Wales), The Pain Game[16]
- 2013 Josie Turner (Kent, England), Rations[17]
- 2012 Sally Spedding (Ammanford, Wales), She wears green[18]
- 2011 David J Costello (Wirral, England), Horseshoe Bat[19]
- 2010 Sally Spedding (Ammanford, Wales), Litzmannstadt 1941[20]
- 2009 John Gallas (Leicestershire, England), The origami lesson[21]
- 2008 Emily Hinshelwood (Ammanford, Wales), Visually Speaking[22]
- 2007 Gavin Price (Cardiff, Wales), Concrete[23]
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/about/ Official website
- https://bylines.cymru/author/dave-lewis/ Bylines Cymru
- https://books.google.com/books?id=f59RAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Welsh+Poetry+Competition%22+-wikipedia 'The First Five Years'
- https://books.google.com/books?id=q4oLMQAACAAJ&q=%22Welsh+Poetry+Competition%22+-wikipedia 'Ten Years On'
- https://books.google.com/books?id=02GvzgEACAAJ 'The Third One'
- https://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners-2024/ Official website
- https://bylines.cymru/voices-lleisiau/welsh-poetry-2023-winners/ Welsh Poetry Sunday
- https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/international-poetry-competition-winner-98102 News of the Area
- http://welshwriters.co.uk/event/estelle-price-wins-wales-biggest-poetry-contest/ Estelle Price wins Wales Biggest Poetry Contest
- https://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/welsh2020/ Sheila Aldous wins Welsh Poetry Competition
- https://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/welsh-poetry-competition/ 1st Prize goes to Australian poet Damen O'Brien
- http://www.literaturewales.org/lw-news/judy-durrant-wins-welsh-poetry-competition/ 1st Prize goes to Australian poet Judy Durrant for her haunting poem about the film and true life events surrounding 'Wolf Creek
- http://www.literaturewales.org/lw-news/rea-howells-wins-welsh-poetry-competition-2017/ Inspired by an evening walk during a family trip to Liverpool
- https://www.facebook.com/rhulenglish/photos/pb.645721955460913.-2207520000.1474216008./1253931464639956/?type=3&theater Congratulations to Tarquin Landseer, Creative Writing MA Poetry and Poetics student, who has won first prize in the International Welsh Poetry Competition 2016
- https://www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/competitions/2-uncategorised/215-mick-evans Cinnamon Press article
- https://americymru.net/americymru/blog/4171/kathy-miles-wins-welsh-poetry-competition Americymru
- http://bookapoet.blogspot.com/2013/07/josie-turner-wins-welsh-poetry.html Book a Poet
- http://www.sallyspedding.com/excerpts.html Excerpts from her writing career
- https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=22167 Write Out Loud
- https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/its-no-mystery-who-deserves-1903459 It’s no mystery who deserves writers’ prize
- https://books.google.com/books?id=f59RAwAAQBAJ&dq=john+gallas+welsh+poetry+anthology&pg=PA195 Welsh Poetry Competition Anthology 2011
- https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-poetry-winners-announced-2160122 Wales Online article
- http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners-2007/ 1st ever winner of the international Welsh Poetry Competition
