Competitions
INDIGO SPRING POETRY PRIZE 2026
RESULTS
PRIZES
1st £250; 2nd £100; 3rd £50 ... plus magazine publication in either Reach Poetry or The Dawntreader
OUR JUDGE
VICTORIA GATEHOUSE
Victoria Gatehouse is a Zoologist, award-winning poet and children’s writer.
Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC radio and she has been widely published in magazines including The Rialto and Mslexia. Her pamphlet The Mechanics of Love (Smith|Doorstop) was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy.
Victoria has won, and been placed in, many competitions and is also a three-times winner of The Poetry News Members’ Competition. She was highly commended for the Gingko Prize, 2023. Her Indigo Dreams collection The Hawthorn Bride was published in 2024.
WINNING POEMS
A Perfect Noun by Joan Bailey
All the Right Ingredients by Jean Hall
All the Wild Witches by Katherine Meehan
Black Rain by Kathy Miles
Carols at the Post Office By Pamela Gormally
Chiaroscuro by Gerald Killingworth
Courgette Blossom and Brie Tart by Cath Allwoood
Gravedigger by Ian Clarke
Mermaid’s Tears by Angela Varley
Templemeads Station, November 2025 by Jean Grimsey
The porch by Ted Gooda
Traces of an Orchard by Creana Bosac
A field guide to the chakras by Hannah Stone
Alexa Develops Dementia by Kathy Miles
No, Nigel, I do not want your feathers by Lauren Colley
Old man Crazy to Paint by Sue Moules
Swan on the Wensum by Dharmavadana
The Day We Wrote No Poems by Tim Kiely
To Edna St Vincent Millay by Nairn Kennedy
HIGHLY COMMENDED
COMMENDED
1st: Mars and Venus United by Love by Rosie Jackson
2nd: Allegorical by Tina Cole
3rd: Badbea by Alice Stainer
Huge congratulations to our winners and thank you to everyone for making this such a wonderful competition. The quality of the writing was superb! Well done poets!
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