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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).

Pay Paypal - click yellow DONATE button top of page or

go to Paypal and send payment to poetryonthelake  AT    yahoo.co.uk   (close gaps, add @ delete AT

Email to:  Potlcompetition@gmail.com 

1-Paypal transaction number  2 - contact details

3 - all your haiku all in body of mail (no attachments) 

subject of mail: haiku entry

queries to poetryonthelake  AT yahoo.co.uk 

 

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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

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