Here are the Results of the
Prose and Poetry Prizes 2010
Sponsored by The New Writer
SHORT STORY category - judged by Susannah Rickards; her collection of short stories, Hot Kitchen Snow, won the Scott Prize and is available from Salt Publishing. http://susannahrickards.blogspot.com
1st Jo Campbell Hawfinch
2nd Nemone Thornes A Landscape with Dolphins
3rd Melanie Whipman Falafal
Very Highly Commended: Marina Stubbs Velvet
Highly Commended: Jennifer Bailey The Clockmaker's Daughter; Michel E. Bensadon Simoun; Joanna Campbell The Early Morning Party; Margorie Fisher The Day That Wittgenstein Came To Tea; Frances Mannion The Pawn Shop of Misfit Dreams; Teresa O'Brien Pandemic; Melanie Whipman Fishing Lines and Ninety-Nines.
Commended: Robert Arnott My Belgian Muzhik; Merryn Glover Class; Sue Healy Sheila-Na-Gig; Sherri Turner Portrait of the Artist.
Longlist: Ursula Barnes, Gillian Belchetz, Tracy Fells, Susan Fixter, George Harrar, Anthony Howcroft, Elena Kaufman, James Mitchinson, Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Caroline Seberg, Fleur Smithwick, Alistair Wright.
1st Hana Sklenkova Cape of Good Hope
Commended: Season Butler Joe Griffin is Dead; Katy Darby The Portrait; Eliza Hemingway The Fountain Builder; Jessica Faleiro Ghost Stories from Goa; Rowena Macdonald Smoked Meat; David Mackenzie The Small Loch.
POETRY COLLECTION category -- judged
by Helen Ivory, winner of an Eric Gregory Award and whose third collection,
The Breakfast Machine, is published by Bloodaxe Books. http://www.helenivory.co.uk
1st Sharon Black Breach
2nd Louisa Tomlinson Rearrangements
3rd Louise Wilford Lodged In My Deepest Bones
Highly Commended: Idris Caffrey Ends and Beginnings; hj elliot Bones; Jo Hemmant Rosabelle believe; Francesca Pridham Red Jam.
Commended: Margaret Eddershaw The Envious Eye; Deborah Harvey The Mary Block and nine other poems; Alison Lock Sea Stars; Irene E. Wilkie Dreams Are The Colours You Own.
Honourable
Mentions: Victoria Gatehouse, Cora Greenhill, James Kilner, Rona
Laycock, Sarah Williams.
SINGLE POEM category - judged by Helen Ivory.
1st Louisa Tomlinson All we can do
2nd Jennifer L. Olds Catching Meteors: The Autistic Son Turns 21
3rd Sharon Black Autopsy
Highly Commended: J.A. Bradshaw Lovesong; Sallie Durham Festival; Jo Hemmant Translation; Dave Lewis Learning in Gaps; Corrinna Toop Like Cleopatra; Eleanor J Vale Surprise.
Commended: Anna Lampen The Snake Seller of Marrakesh; Jonathan Pinnock Cyprus Delight.
Honourable Mentions: Stephen Beattie, Sallie Durham, Zoe Griffiths, Daniel Gustafsson, Alison Lock, Leo Madigan, Al McClimens, Valerie Morton, Wendy Stedman, Michael Swan.
ESSAY / ARTICLE category - -judged by Lynne
Hackles, full-time writer and tutor who has ventured into all aspects
of writing including writing for children, ghostwriting, short stories
in almost all of the UK women's magazines. http://www.lynnehackles.com
1st Jackie Winter The Jolliest, Sanest, Most Thrilling Little Paper in the World
2nd David McVey McCrae's Flanders
3rd Julia Anderson Tune In and Turn On: Why the radio is an essential tool for writers
Highly Commended: John Bainbridge Gracie Fields in a Bush; Sue Johnson Ever Increasing Circles; Jackie Winter Boots Booklovers Library.
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Thank you to everyone who entered their work, we hope you'll do so again this time around.
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Read all the previous winning entries in the Prose & Poetry Prizes; apart from the most recent "Collection" which is £5, the following publications, now dramatically reduced in price, are available from The New Writer at special price of £3 each inclusive of postage and packing.
The winning writers in the ninth annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2009 (judges Vanessa Gebbie, Abi Curtis, Nicholas Corder) are published in The Collection 2009 (TNW 103): Short story: Judi Moore (1st), Gill Belchetz, MP Stanley. Novella: Alison Moore (1st). Poetry collection: Maitreyabandhu (1st), Sharon Black, Rebecca Goss. Single poem: Sharon Black (1st), Louisa Tomlinson, Louise Wilford. Essay/article: Dorothy Schwarz (1st), William Wood, David McVey.
The winning writers in the ninth annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2008 (judges Sarah Salway, Clare Pollard, Maureen Carter) are published in The Collection 2008 (TNW 97): Short story: Clare Girvan (1st), Leslie Forbes, Kerry Hood. Novella: Alex Sheal (1st). Poetry collection: Victor Tapner (1st), Cliff Forshaw, Pat Borthwick. Single poem: Hannah Lowe (1st), Pat Borthwick, Louise Wilford. Essay/article: Lynn Bushell (1st), Ann MacLaren, David McVey.
The winning writers in the eighth annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2007 (judges Jacob Polley, Andrew McGuinness) are published in The Collection 2007 (TNW 91): Short story: Louis Malloy (1st), Cathy Whitfield, Alexandra Fox, Elizabeth Janzen. Novella: David Winston Lee (1st) Poetry collection: Alesha Racine (1st), Rebecca Goss, Anna Woodford. Single poem: Noel Williams (1st), Clare Jay, Ryan Scott. Essay/article: Ann Stevens (1st), Julia Anderson, Anita Loughrey.
The winning writers in the seventh annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2006 (judges Robyn Young, Robert Seatter) are published in The Collection 2006 (TNW 85): Short story: Wes Lee (1st), James Gering, Cathy Whitfield. Novella: Lucy Byrne (1st) Poetry collection: Graham Clifford (1st), Jennifer Copley, Jacqui Rowe, Rebecca Goss. Single poem: Christine Coleman (1st), Katy Darby, David Mark Williams. Essay/article: Ann MacLaren (1st), Tim Daly, Paul F. Newman.
The winning writers in the sixth annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2005 (judges Mimi Thebo, Jane Draycott) are published in The Collection 2005 (TNW 79): Short story: Lucy Nathan (1st), Cathy Whitfield, Alexandra Fox. Novella: Michele McCrea (1st) Poetry collection: Julian Stannard, Tim Field (1st=), Sarah Salway. Single poem: Sue Moules (1st), Elizabeth Gowing, Judi Marsh. Essay/article: Germaine Stafford (1st), Sally Zigmond, David Lazell.
The winning writers in the fifth annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2004 (judges Margaret Graham, Ros Barber, Judy Strachan) are published in The Collection 2004 (TNW 73): Short story: Carol Anderson (1st), Mo McAuley, Teresa O'Brien. Novella: Dorothy Schwarz (1st) Poetry collection: Peter Hoggarth (1st), Paul McLoughlin, Jennifer Copley. Single poem: Alesha Mae Racine (1st), J.A.Priestman, Julie Lynn. Essay/article: Sue Johnson (1st), Irene Black, David McVey.
The winning writers in the fourth annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2003 (judges Phil Whitaker, Jackie Wills, Suzanne Ruthven) are published in The Collection 2003 (TNW 67): Short story: Andrew McGuinness (1st), Katy Darby, Ellen Quigley, Paul Cuddihy, Mark Wagstaff. Novella: Julian Thomas (1st) Poetry collection: David Grubb (1st), Hubert Moore, Pam Calabrese MacLean. Single poem: Mario Petrucci (1st), Julie-ann Rowell, Colin Watts. Essay/article: A L Black (1st), Judy Strachan, David Roberts.
The winning writers in the third annual Prose & Poetry Prizes 2002 (judges Alan Brunstrom, Sally Spedding, Shelagh Nugent) are published in The Collection 2002 (TNW 61): Short story: Judi Moore (1st), Peter Kay, Penny Davidmann, Novella: Alan Franks (1st). Poetry collection: David Grubb (1st), Cliff Forshaw, Catherine Smith. Single poem: Siriol Troup (1st), Celia De Freine, Janet Batchelor, Richard Rhydderch. Essay/article: Fiona Curnow (1st), Jane Eagland, David Roberts.
The winning writers in the second Prose & Poetry Prizes 2001 (judges Julia Widdows, Maureen Carter) are published in The Collection 2001 (TNW 55): Short story: Mark Brown (1st), Elizabeth Iddon, Ann Jolly. Novella: Gill Hancock (1st). Poetry collection: Katy Darby (1st), Carla Jetko, Alison Binney, Kate Rhodes. Single poem: Christine Coleman (1st), Catherine Smith, Derrick Porter. Essay/article: Sally Zigmond (1st), Dorothy Cleal, Tan Mackay.
The winning writers in the Prose & Poetry Prizes 2000 (judges Simon Scarrow, Alys Clare) are published in The Collection 2000 (TNW 49): Short story: Julia Widdows (1st), Laurie McTaggart, Alison Love. Novella: Jamie Walsh (1st), Poetry collection: Judith Lal (1st), Erina Harris, Nigel McLoughlin. Single poem: Carla Jetko (1st), Ann Leahy, Joy Winkler. Essay/article: Gillian Prudden (1st), Jane Wenham-Jones, Maureen Gallagher.
The winning poets in the third Poetry Prizes 1999 (judges Amanda White, Paul Groves) are published in The Bread We Live By: Poetry collection: John Halladay (1st), Felicity Napier, Catherine Smith, Ros Barber, Clive Simpson. Single poem: Simon Rees-Roberts (1st), Fiona Curnow, Gervaise Vaz, Chris Beckett, Edmund Cusick, Antony Dunn, Charles Evans, Kerry Hardie, Jane McNulty, Lesley Mountain, Lynne Rees, Dan Wyke.
The winning poets in the second Poetry Prizes 1998 (judges Ros Barber, Paul Henry) are published in the 94 page paperback The Piano On Fire: Poetry collection: Julie-Ann Rowell (1st), Hilary Jayne, Catherine Smith, Nell Farrell, Karen Kuehne Annesen, Susannah Rickards, Sandrine Tiller, Single poem: Andrew Dilger (1st), Fiona Curnow, Paul Groves, Jim Carruth, Nicolette Golding, Giles Goodland, David Grubb, Rima Handley, Judy Johnson, Mario Petrucci, Amanda White.
The winning poets in the first Poetry Prizes 1997 (judges Sue Butler, Mario Petrucci) are published in the 96 page paperback What Will We Do When We Get There? : Poetry collection: Mark Granier (1st), Ros Barber, Celia de Frine, John Hilton, William Dryland, Tinker Mather. Single poem: Jenny Lewis (1st), Martyn Lowery, Lynne Elson, Emma-Jane Arkady, Nigel Black, Alma Brayden, Edmund Cusick, Mike Elam, John Halladay, Hilary Jayne, Linda Lamus, Jenny Morris, Antony Nicholls, Chris Raetschus, Elizabeth Rapp, Alyss Thomas, Carmen Walton.
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