Competitions

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Indigo Spring Poetry Prize - FULL RESULTS
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INDIGO SPRING POETRY PRIZE 2024

RESULTS

PRIZES: 1st £250; 2nd £100; 3rd £50 plus magazine publication

OUR JUDGE

VIC PICKUP

Vic has won the Café Writers and Cupid’s Arrow Competitions, and been shortlisted for the National Poetry Day #speakyourtruth prize on YouTube. Vic’s debut pamphlet Lost & Found was released by Hedgehog Press in 2020 and her micro-pamphlet ‘What colour is my brain?’, co-written with Jules Whiting, came out in 2022. Currently working as a doctoral researcher in the Mills & Boon archives at Reading University, Vic also co-hosts Reading’s Poets’ Café and Poets’ Café Online. www.vicpickup.com

Her collection The Omniscient Tooth Fairy was published by Indigo Dreams in 2023.

Many thanks for entering this very popular competition. Huge congratulations to the winners and an enormous parcel of thanks to our splendid Judge, Vic Pickup.
28.6 _ Kevin MacAlan
Adder - Hilary Thompson
An injured jackdaw - Denni Turp
All of us who never got to say goodbye - Jennifer A. McGowan
Confiscating blue from the city - Deborah Finding
English fields - Jenny Mitchell
Golden Mole - Bex Hainsworth
Grandmother turns black & white as an alternative to death - Simon French
Heart - Denni Turp
Hollying - Alice Stainer
I unpick my town - Riff Poynton
I wish my parents were hoarders - Liz Dean
Joy in a side room - Susan Bell
Making Dolmades in Essex - Judith Wozniak
Nostos - Alice Stainer
Revelations - Kathy Miles
Sludge - Julie Stevens
The boyfriends - Michael Brown
The secrets of the quiet time - Julie Filimon
Terminology - Julie Filimon

THE SHORTLIST

THE LONGLIST

28.6 - Kevin MacAlan
Adder - Hilary Thompson
An injured jackdaw - Denni Turp
All of us who never got to say goodbye - Jennifer A. McGowan
Confiscating blue from the city - Deborah Finding
The Boyfriends - Michael Brown
Terminology - Julie Filimon

1st PLACE

2nd PLACE

3rd PLACE

Confiscating blue from the city by Deborah Finding

Terminology by Julie Filimon

The Boyfriends by Michael Brown

INDIGO FIRST COLLECTION COMPETITION

Thank you to everyone for taking part in the competition. The standard of writing filled us both with huge optimism for the future of poetry. All those mentioned had the potential to be fine collections, worthy of being given a wider audience. Please feel encouraged by this, even if you weren't one of our winners.

More competition opportunities will be coming up soon!

ONEIRONAUT by Leah Larwood

FRAGILE ISLANDS by Christine Hollywood

THE WINNERS