TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL
POETRY COMPETITION 2024
POETRY COMPETITION 2024
The 2024 Competition is open to all poets, UK and international.
Entries from writers with Devon postcodes will automatically and additionally be entered for the Graham Burchell Award for Devon Poets.
Closing date: 31 January 2024
For Competition rules click here
Online Entry form click here
Postal Entry Form click here
Open Poetry Competition
Prizes: 1st - £600 2nd - £300 3rd - £200
An additional £25 will be awarded to the top 3 commended poems
Judge: Malika Booker
Graham Burchell Award – Devon residents only
Prizes: 1st - £200 2nd - £100 3rd - £50
An additional £25 will be awarded to the top 3 commended poems
Judge: Graeme Ryan
Entries from writers with Devon postcodes will automatically and additionally be entered for the Graham Burchell Award for Devon Poets.
Closing date: 31 January 2024
For Competition rules click here
Online Entry form click here
Postal Entry Form click here
Open Poetry Competition
Prizes: 1st - £600 2nd - £300 3rd - £200
An additional £25 will be awarded to the top 3 commended poems
Judge: Malika Booker
Graham Burchell Award – Devon residents only
Prizes: 1st - £200 2nd - £100 3rd - £50
An additional £25 will be awarded to the top 3 commended poems
Judge: Graeme Ryan
OPEN COMPETITION
JUDGE - MALIKA BOOKER
JUDGE - MALIKA BOOKER
Malika Booker is a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. She co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. With Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire, Malika is published in the Penguin Modern Poets Series 3, Your Family: Your Body (2017). A Cave Canem Fellow and inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, she was awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for her outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow in 2022. Malika is the first woman to win the Forward Prize Best Single Poem – Written category twice, first in 2020 with her poem The Little Miracles, commissioned by and published in Magma 75 (2019), and in 2023 with Libation, published in The Poetry Review (2022).
GRAHAM BURCHELL AWARD FOR DEVON POETS
JUDGE - GRAEME RYAN
JUDGE - GRAEME RYAN
Graeme Ryan was brought up in St Anne's on Sea, Lancashire. He taught English and Drama in the Southwest for many years and wrote seven full-length plays for young people, including Heartland, Hope Street and Tracks of the Free. Graeme won the Teignmouth Festival Open Poetry prize in 2018 and collaborated in The Poetry of Unknown Things for the 2023 festival. He is a co-chair of Somerset-based Fire River Poets and has read widely across the Southwest, most recently at Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey. His debut poetry collection Valley of the Kings was published in 2022.
Graeme Ryan was brought up in St Anne's on Sea, Lancashire. He taught English and Drama in the Southwest for many years and wrote seven full-length plays for young people, including Heartland, Hope Street and Tracks of the Free. Graeme won the Teignmouth Festival Open Poetry prize in 2018 and collaborated in The Poetry of Unknown Things for the 2023 festival. He is a co-chair of Somerset-based Fire River Poets and has read widely across the Southwest, most recently at Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey. His debut poetry collection Valley of the Kings was published in 2022.