TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL
 POETRY COMPETITION 2023

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TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL COMPETITION 2023 RESULTS
 
We are delighted to announce the results, winning poems and judges' reports.  

OPEN COMPETITION – results and poems   - click here
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD - results and poems - click here       
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OPEN COMPETITION 2023 
​JUDGE  - FIONA BENSON
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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 2023 FOR DEVON POETS
​JUDGE - SUE PROFFITT
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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.sueproffitt.com

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