2024 Young Poets Competition Shortlist
Congratulations to our 2024 Young Poets Shortlisted Entries
| 5 year waitlist | Alexandra Conroy-Gent |
| Antoinette | Aliyah Zaranyika |
| Bleeding From Excitement | Sofia Barrios |
| Divinity or Simplicity of Sisterhood | Pippa Ann Day |
| figures of light | Jasmine Morgan |
| First World Lament | Daisy Stewart Henderson |
| Harsh Loving | Rowan Imogen Brown |
| Hummingbird | Matt Niedzielski |
| (IN A TESCO, IN KETTERING) | Iain Lynn |
| Loch Fyne | Millie Caldeira-Dunkerley |
| My Father and his Hometown | Arwen Amin |
| Night Stars | Oshadha Perera |
| Penelope | Imogen Cornish |
| Reversal of Fortunes | Eleanor Harvey |
| Seventeen | Ava Pardue |
| Ode To The Dent You Left In The Sofa Cushions | Sylvan Restarick |
| Who Switched the Lights Off | Millie Caldeira-Dunkerley |
| Why does it have to be this way? | Megan Ashfield |
| Willow Weep for You | William George Marshall |
Clare Shaw will be judging this year’s Young Poets Competition. She has four poetry collections with Bloodaxe. The latest collection – Towards a General Theory of Love (2022) – is a poetic exploration of love and love’s absence: it won a Northern Writers’ Award and was a Poetry Society Book of the Year.
Clare lectures at the University of Huddersfield, and runs courses for Wordsworth Grasmere, the Royal Literary Fund and the Arvon Foundation.
Clare is a dynamic and popular performer who has also written and presented for BBC Radio 3 and 4. A passionate advocate for accessibility in poetry, and for poetry as a tool of personal and social change, Clare has founded or directed numerous poetry initiatives including the Kendal Poetry Festival, Wonky Animals, the Lost Things Project and many more.
Prize Giving and Poetry Reading takes place on Friday 25 October starting at 10am as part of the Festival.
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