TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2023
POETRY COMPETITION 2023
We are delighted to list below the poets who have been shortlisted by our Judges to come and read at our prize giving event at the Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2023. Six shortlisted poems in each category of the competition will be read, and the winners will be announced by our judges Fiona Benson and Sue Proffitt.
OPEN COMPETITION – JUDGE FIONA BENSON
Poets are listed in alphabetical order:
Heidi Beck, Roy Cockcroft, Jonathan Edwards, Maria Isakova-Bennett, Mary Mulholland, Susan Taylor
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD FOR DEVON POETS – JUDGE SUE PROFFITT
Poets are listed in alphabetical order
Chrissy Banks, Helene Demetriades, Grizel Luttman-Johnson, Pat Millner, Jan Nicholls, Chris Waters
Many Congratulations to our shortlisted poets.
In addition our judges would like to give a special mention to the following longlisted and commended poets
OPEN COMPETITION
Martin Reed, Sara Nesbitt Gibbons, Robin Knight, Kathryn Bevis, Oliver Morris, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Sue Johns,
Giles Goodland, Nick Grundy, Cian Ferriter, Liz Diamond, Sharon Black, Victoria Gatehouse, Tim Waller, Joe Cheesman,
Deb Burch, Howard Wright, Partridge Boswell, Grizel Luttman-Johnson
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD FOR DEVON POETS
Claire Berlyn, Terry Dyson, Susan Taylor
The prize giving is taking place at the Teignmouth Poetry Festival on 1st April at 2.30pm and will be followed by a reading by Fiona Benson at 4.30pm. All details and a full Festival programme can be found on our Festival 2023 page.
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OPEN COMPETITION – JUDGE FIONA BENSON
Poets are listed in alphabetical order:
Heidi Beck, Roy Cockcroft, Jonathan Edwards, Maria Isakova-Bennett, Mary Mulholland, Susan Taylor
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD FOR DEVON POETS – JUDGE SUE PROFFITT
Poets are listed in alphabetical order
Chrissy Banks, Helene Demetriades, Grizel Luttman-Johnson, Pat Millner, Jan Nicholls, Chris Waters
Many Congratulations to our shortlisted poets.
In addition our judges would like to give a special mention to the following longlisted and commended poets
OPEN COMPETITION
Martin Reed, Sara Nesbitt Gibbons, Robin Knight, Kathryn Bevis, Oliver Morris, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Sue Johns,
Giles Goodland, Nick Grundy, Cian Ferriter, Liz Diamond, Sharon Black, Victoria Gatehouse, Tim Waller, Joe Cheesman,
Deb Burch, Howard Wright, Partridge Boswell, Grizel Luttman-Johnson
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD FOR DEVON POETS
Claire Berlyn, Terry Dyson, Susan Taylor
The prize giving is taking place at the Teignmouth Poetry Festival on 1st April at 2.30pm and will be followed by a reading by Fiona Benson at 4.30pm. All details and a full Festival programme can be found on our Festival 2023 page.
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OPEN COMPETITION
JUDGE - FIONA BENSON
JUDGE - FIONA BENSON
Fiona Benson’s third collection, Ephemeron, has recently been published by Jonathan Cape. This follows Vertigo & Ghost (Cape, 2019), which won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize, while her first collection, Bright Travellers (Cape, 2014) won the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Fiona was the first author selected for the Faber New Poets pamphlet series, and in 2021 was one of the three judges for the National Poetry Competition and lives in Cornwall.
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD FOR DEVON POETS
JUDGE - SUE PROFFITT
JUDGE - SUE PROFFITT
Sue Proffitt lives by the coast in South Devon. Having won this award in 2022 and previously been placed 1st and 2nd in the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition, she is ideally qualified to be our judge in 2023. Her poetry has been published in many magazines and journals, as well as two collections. Her first, Open After Dark (Oversteps, 2017) was followed by The Lock-Picker (Palewell Press), written during her month on a Hawthornden Fellowship.
She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Bath Spa and is currently working on her third collection. www.owlmagic.com
She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Bath Spa and is currently working on her third collection. www.owlmagic.com
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