The 2020 Competitions are coming
POETRY opens on 1st September 2019
PHOTOTGRAPHY opens on 1st November 2019
POETRY opens on 1st September 2019
PHOTOTGRAPHY opens on 1st November 2019
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Three age groups for each competition are:
11 & Under - prize £50
12-17 - prize £70
18 & Over - prize £200
11 & Under - prize £50
12-17 - prize £70
18 & Over - prize £200
The 2020 Judges
Jane Draycott is our judge for the Poetry Competition - www.janedraycott.org.uk
Jane Draycott is a poet and translator, whose collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant, Over (nominated for the T S Eliot Prize), Prince Rupert’s Drop (nominated for the Forward Prize for Poetry) and a modern translation of Pearl, a medieval dream-elegy for an infant girl. A recipient of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, she has been Writer in Residence in Amsterdam and was winner of the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She teaches on creative writing programmes at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster |
Jo Stephen is our judge for the Photography Competition - jostephenphotography.wordpress.com
Jo Stephen is a self taught photographer and artist living and working in rural North Dorset, who explores her love of nature through the medium of photography, digital art, alternate photographic processes and print making. Her work has been published in Amateur Photographer, Digital Photographer, Practical Photographer, Dorset Life, Dorset magazine, and the Wex Photographic Calendar, and she has been awarded a bronze medal for a photographic portfolio at the RHS London Botanical Art Fair 2018 for a collection of images of her beloved local woods. |
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