The Wigtown Poetry Competition

The Wigtown Poetry Competition is the largest poetry competition in Scotland
with over 2000 entries in it's first year.

Judge's reports - Main Report , Gaelic Report

Ist Prize

My Darling, My Cliché - Kathryn Simmonds

2 nd Prize

Pride - Judy Brown

3 rd Prize

Odysseus and the Sou’Wester - Jen Hadfield

Gaelic Prize

An fhior bheinn - Aonghas MacNeacail

Commended Poems

Pigeon’s Egg - Isla Duncan

Lead, Kindly Light - Jennifer Copley

Tabernacles - Atar Hadari

Aftermath of Love - Chloe Morrish

Parasites - Christie Williamson

Night Train from Parma - Anna Wigley

The Dead - David Winston Lee

The Hardest Lines - Ronald Kerr

In a Small and Private Room - Anne Stewart

Agoraphobic in Love - Kathryn Simmonds

Prizes
1st £2000 - 2nd £1000 - 3rd £500
Gaelic Prize - £1000
plus 10 supplementary prizes of £50 each
Winning entries will be published in the Sunday Herald

Winners notified by 9th April
Prizegiving Event will take place in Wigtown on 5th May
Winners announced in the Sunday Herald on 29th April
or on the Wigtown web site from 14th May

Rules

• All poems are judged anonymously and the name of the poet must not appear on the manuscript.
• All poems must be typed on a separate sheet of paper.
• For postal entries please include two copies of poems.
• Poems must not exceed 40 lines (not including title).
• All entrants must be 16 years of age or over.
• Entries may be in English, Scots or Scots or Irish Gaelic.
• The competition is open to anyone throughout and outside the United Kingdom.
• Poems must not be previously published, accepted for publication or currently entered into another competition.
• There is no restriction on the number of poems submitted by each applicant, provided the appropriate entry fee is included.
• Competition entries cannot be returned.
• Alterations cannot be made to poems once they have been submitted.
• All poems will be read initially by a team at the Scottish Poetry Library prior to the final judging process.
• Winners will be notified by 9th April. Winning entries will appear in the Sunday Herald on the 29th May, and winners will be listed on the Wigtown website from 14th May.
• No personal correspondence will be entered into re notification of results.
  

Fees
The first poem submitted costs £5.00 and three poems costs £10.00. Subsequent
entries cost £5.00 each or an additional £10.00 for every additional three.

Copyright
The copyright of each poem remains with the author.
The authors of the winning poems grant the Wigtown Book Town Company the right to use the poems in publicity material for one year from 3rd April 2007, and the Sunday Herald the right to publish them for one year from 3rd April 2007.
The winning and commended poems will also appear in an anthology published in association with the Galloway Gazette.

Please note: No employee of Wigtown Book Town Company, Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, or the Scottish Poetry Library may enter the competition.

The judge's decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into.

Send to The Wigtown Poetry Competition, Wigtown Book Town Company, County Buildings, Wigtown, DG8 9JH

Read more or Enter Online

In association with the Scottish Poetry Library
and the Sunday Herald