2023 Young Poets Competition Shortlist
Congratulations to our 2023 Young Poets Shortlisted Entries
| An atheist considers F.R. Tenant’s aesthetic argument for the existence of God | Grace McGuigan |
| Another morning in the Ukrainian Country | Mariia Sukhomlinova |
| Beyond Sunlight | Andrew Pettigrew |
| Birthstone | Madeleine Elizabeth Storer |
| Bite my Tongue | Daniel Jones |
| Cowards and Crows | Charlotte Scaccia Connor Hargrove |
| End, Beginning, End | Bernadette Ingrid Yeung |
| Goodluck Little One | Lucy Prescott |
| Grandfather Clock | Hannah Coyle |
| Huo Guo _ Hotpot | Julia Ongking |
| I dreamt of eternity | Eleanor Wade |
| One Day part 2 | Eva Lantos |
| Sat in Your Hammock at Night, I Write the Same Poem Several Times | Heather Chapman |
| The Arts and Crafts Box | Talia Davis |
| The English Okies | Eve Naden |
| The Hazy Child | Lauren Lendrevie |
| What I don’t tell you when you ask me to write about my country | Julia Ongking |
| Your Skyline _ Became _ Traumatic | Alice Brooker |
Deanna Rodger won the UK Poetry Slam when she was 18 and since then has pushed down closed doors and held them open for others, curating spoken word events, facilitating workshops, writing commissions, and mentoring. Most recently, her reimagined version of Kipling’s If was read by Serena Williams on BBC Sport.
Deanna has taken her passion for poetry, especially poetry by and for today’s young readers, on to a huge range of platforms: the British Council (various), Writing for Performance (with Benjamin Zephaniah at Brunel University), Arvon Foundation, Roundhouse, Lyric Hammersmith, Apples and Snakes, National Theatre, Young Vic, The Old Vic, Cardboard Citizens, Foundling Museum, Hamilton Trust and countless others. She is an in-house tutor at the School of Communication Arts (dubbed The most successful AD school in the world) and promises to be an inspirational judge for our Young Poets.
First Prize £150. Second and third prizes £75 and £50. Plus a year’s subscription to the Poetry Society. Prize Giving and Poetry Reading takes place on Monday 30 October 2023 as part of the Festival.
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