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We Have A Winner! 2023 HWC Poetry Prize – The Results.
We are delighted to announce the results of the Hay Writers Circle Poetry Competition 2023. This popular competition again received a good number of entries from both inside and outside Hay Writers’ Circle and we very much welcome external interest … Continue reading
Hay Writer Has Poetry With A Sea View
Congratulations to Hay Writers’ Circle member, Emma van Woerkom who has a number of poems included in the “Letters for the Sea, Letters for the Land” project from Culture Weston, Weston-super-Mare.
Poems and texts from a 18 poets have been selected and placed on the glass partitions of the newly refurbished Victorian seafront shelters, as well as poster boards along Marine Parade and Weston’s long promenade, with more poems due to appear in the coming weeks. Continue reading
Poems by our 2021 Prize Winners – Ojo Taiye, Stewart Roberts and Ange Grunsell
We are delighted to showcase some of the work by our 2021 Poetry Competition winners. Ange Grunsell secured Third Prize with a poem inspired by time spent olive picking in Palestine with the Zaytoun, a Community Interest Company and social … Continue reading
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Nigerian Poet, Ojo Taiye, Wins 2021 Hay Writers Circle Poetry Competition.
We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2021 Annual Poetry Competition as judged by the wonderful Melanie Prince (ably assisted by Chris Prince), of The Poetry Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye. This year we had a deluge of entries and we … Continue reading
More Exciting Poetry News!
We are thrilled to congratulate our recent judge for the 2020 Frances Copping Memorial Prize for Fiction, Kandace Siobhan Walker, who was named winner of The White Review Poet’s Prize 2020/21. Her wining poetry portfolio was judged by Jay Bernard, … Continue reading
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2020 Poetry Competition – Results Announced.
The winners of the 2020 Hay Writers’ Circle Poetry Competition are: First prize – Emma van Woerkom – ‘Blackberry Seed’ Second prize – Angela Grunsell – ‘Autonomy’ Third prize – Katy Stones – ‘After him’ This year our judge … Continue reading
February 18th – Poetry Workshop with Lesley Saunders
***STOP PRESS*** The Deadline for The Hay Writers’ Circle Poetry Competition 2020 is Tuesday 17th March – Results will be announced in April. All our competitions are open to non-members for a small fee and your entry will be very welcome. Info on … Continue reading
Kate Noakes Announced As Poetry Competition Judge 2020
Hay Writers’ Circle are excited to announce that the superb Kate Noakes has agreed to judge our 2020 Poetry Competition. Kate Noakes is a prize-winning and widely published poet who set up Boomslang Poetry to facilitate poetry readings and workshops in the UK. More about Kate in … Continue reading
A Truth For National Poetry Day 2019
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Book Launch at The Poetry Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye
BOOK LAUNCH A magnificent night, a full house with standing room only and a fine compliment of poets reading from Seren Book’s publication Poems from the Borders. A huge thank you to Chris and Melanie Prince who hosed the event … Continue reading
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