new international competition for haiku 2023
Judge: Kevin Bailey (who will read all entries)
founder and editor HQ Poetry Magazine
Cash prize: €100 euro & publication
in HQ Poetry Magazine (with author’s permission)
offered to up to 10 others
opens 1st March - deadline midnight 31st May 2023
freeform haiku welcome
Fee: £3 or 4 euro for an entry of up to 5 haiku. (£6 or 8 euro for from 6-10 haiku etc).
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The 2023 international competition for the Silver Wyvern
will be launched late summer
Judges: Carol Ann Duffy & Imtiaz Dharker
They will read all the entries - no sifting
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2022 Competition CLOSED
Theme 'Serendipity'
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RESULTS 2022
NB: listed poems: initials of titles only; when title is a single word, first and last letters hyphened.
FORMAL VERSE - RESULTS
Winner – Lizzie Ballagher Across the Barle pantoum; HC Anne Stewart (LOTKT)
Listed (in random order): Mandy Pannett (LAF); A.C.Clarke (SSR); Gavin Haran (WAL);
Maurice Franceschi (P-N); Alessio Zanelli (ATOTT); Peter Duff (RTS); Lizzie Ballagher (UTK).
SHORT POEMS RESULTS
Winner: Chris Considine Island Weather
Listed (in random order): Alolika Dutta (THOT); Michael Swan (FA) & (ST) & (MB);
Derek Sellen (TAS); Chris Considine (EFAWW) & (JR); Sharon Black (EA); Anne Ballard (TSFTPS);
Rose Maloukis (TAWOM) & (ILGOF); Brian Clark (DNRTPA); Sean Burke (C) ; Sarah Salway (SMAMB);
SILVER WYVERN RESULTS
WINNER: Hélène Demetriades Upcycling
2nd. Mark Fiddes Late Checkout; 3rd Patrick Williamson The Salt Trail.
Listed (in random order):John Karl Stokes (THCATWF): Jane Burn (ATDAR);
Sharon Ashton (LCASA) & (SCR); Sarah Salway (S-L); Michael Swan (S-Y);
Virginia Griem (4SHCC) & (AMOG); Dawn Glaisher (AB); Jane Lovell (C-A);
Victor Tapmer (PS); Mary Gilonne (IHBC); Kate Young (F-A); Eveline O’Donovan (BR);
Sharon Black (F-S); Scott Elder (D-K); Lyn Moir (S-D); Sheila Aldous (MFBHTL) & (WTSATT);
Andrew Robinson (AOC); Stevie Krayer (ADV) & (BW); Aileen Ballantyne (HIMH).
2021 International Poetry Competition
closed 30th April 2021.
Results HERE
JUDGE: JAMES HARPUR
http://www.jamesharpur.com/biography.htm
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2021 -Short Stories & Poems
JUDGE: author and poet D.M.Thomas
https://www.dmthomasonline.net/
Short stories and poems: closed
RESULTS HERE
2020 1st Short story Competition
CLOSED 31st December 2020 RESULTS & JUDGE'S REPORT HERE
The anthology of selected stories 'Off Centre' may be bought from poetryonthelake @ yahoo.co.uk Price 15 euro + postage; special price for entrants to this 1st competition 8,50 euro + postage
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Last year's winning poems HERE
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19th International Competition CLOSED
(To read winning poems 2019 (and 2018), click here)
SILVER WYVERN - Results 2019 - Adjudicator: Paul Henry
Silver Wyvern + 500 euro 1st prize: ‘Rower, Battersea Lake’ by Helena Goddard, Tewkesbury
2nd prize - 200 euro : ‘Dead in the Water’ by Graham Burchell, Devon
Highly commended:
‘Hautdesert Terminus’ by Oz Hardwick, York,
‘Cornering the French Horn’ by Roger Elkin, Biddulph Moor
‘Chocolate Waltz’ by Alex de Verteuil, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago
‘Balance’ by Michael Swan, Oxford
Shortlisted poems:
‘Was that you?’ by Bridget Frost, Limekilns, ‘Vernal Equinox’ by Patrick Lodge, Yorks
‘Of Fire and Water’ by Mary Gilonne, Pourrières, France
‘Muscovy Ducks’ by Virginia Griem. Kinsteignton
‘Au Moulin de la Galette’ by Derek Sellen, Canterbury
‘At the Chapel of Apparitions’ by Olivia Dawson, Sintra, Portugal
FORMAL CATEGORY - adjudicator Kevin Bailey
Winner - 100 euro : What will survive of us by Ian Royce Chamberlain, Teignmouth
Highly Commended: When the trees were still dangerous by Paul Nash, Dublin
Shortlisted by Paul Henry:
The Unburdening by Peter Duff, Ireland
The isolation of the long distance runner, Carolyn King, Isle of Wight
The Mission by Peter Duff, Ireland
Caesium lioness by Chris Scriven, Weymouth
'SPIRIT' - adjudicator Paul Henry
Best poem overall inspired by the theme 'Spirit'
winner (100 euro)‘Mardale Common’ by Erica Bell, Surrey
LONGLIST OF ALL 361 POEMS 2019 DRAWN UP BY KEVIN BAILEY AND GARY BILLS
IN RANDOM ORDER
Stone Star - What will survive of us... -The rituals of others - Lady Cooper Parvenue - The moon yawns and keeps yawning - Climate of Opinion - Hautdesert Terminus - Paris Blues: Global Warning - Au Moulin de la Galette - in our family house - Me, Tammy Wynette, Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx and Adele – Balance - Special Delivery - Without words - A fishy thing the soul - Of fire and water - Instead, think of this - Rower, Battersea Lake - In Loudhams Wood - Dead in the water - At the Chapel of Apparitions - Was that you? - perhaps a manifestation of Buddha - Life in three bags – Revenant - Malus - Meeting a monster in Anglesey - In the Flit of a Wing - The Isolation of the Long-Distance Runner - Caesium Lioness - see you around - Meili Su - The Silver Cord - The Unburdening - The Mission - Green Flash - Vernal Equinox – Responsibility - Chocolate Waltz - Cornering the French Horn - Unknown Young man with a background of flame –Fava leaves - Killing Inside the Wall - This winter - Evening - Muscovy Ducks - Mardale Common - When the trees were still dangerous
Adjudicators: Paul Henry - Kevin Bailey - Gary Bills