PREVIOUS COMPETITIONS

FIRST PRIZE: Damage by Sarah Doyle

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SECOND PRIZE: my life on a postcard by Dillon Jaxx

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THIRD PRIZE: Canary Sharon Black

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Highly Commended:
 

• Franz Joseph Pilgimage by Ilse Pedler

• Irish Sabbath by Siobhan Ward 

• After we tell our mummy… by Vanessa Lampert
   

Commended:

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• Prevailing Conditions  Sarah Doyle

• Three Days Helene Demetriades

• After  Helen Overell

• How to write a poem…  Mary Mulholland
   

Selected:
 

• The Child Show Charles Mawer

• A year of headlines… Val Ormrod

• Reporter Sharon Black

• Observing the Cell Caroline Gilfillan

• What are little girls made of Elizabeth Barton

• Under an Orange Sky Tim Waller

• Wreck-diving Thea Smiley

• What I didn’t keep Vicci Bentley

• 1970s Boys Vanessa Lampert

• Dog Circus Ilse Pedler

• Teaching my son to play chess AC Clarke

• When David Bowie.. Deborah Finding

• Getting the summer clothes out Lucy Crispin

• The Croime of Spaking Pauline O’Dell

• Surgeons Clare Starling

• Fred’s Kit Diana Pritchard

• This the memory Roger Elkins

• Sink Hole Tim Waller

• Your Name, Beth  Chrissie Dreier

• Disappearing Act  Jane Kite

• Sarah Raven’s Gardening Catalogue  Sylvia Banham

• Migration  Morag Anderson

• After the Storm Siobhan Ward

• Three Ghosts Suzanna Fitzpatrick

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The 2023 Open Competition was adjudicated by Julia Webb.