Poetry Wales Award 2025 judge Jeremy Dixon reflects on what he learned about how to win a poetry competition – and how it’s not too different to RuPaul’s Drag Race…
Category: Poetry Wales Award
Poetry Wales Award 2024-25 | The Winners
Announcing the three Award Winners of the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25
Poetry Wales Award 2025-26 | The Shortlist
Get to know the shortlisted poets and buy your ticket for our Awarding Ceremony
Wales Poetry Award 2023 – Shortlist & Winners
Read our thirteen shortlisted poems, selected by Denise Saul
Guinevere Clark: How I Wrote ‘St Non’
“My work has an absorption in the baby or child, reaching into their sensual, physical and emotional world through imagery, speech and metaphor”
Wales Poetry Award 2022 | Winners Announced
On 12th May 2023, the online Awarding Ceremony for Wales Poetry Award 2022 (sponsored by Literature Wales) was held, hosted by judge Gwyneth Lewis and Poetry Wales editor Zoë Brigley. If you were able to join us on the evening, thank you so much for your attendance, and for making the event such a special…
Wales Poetry Award 2022 | Shortlist Announced
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for Wales Poetry Award 2022, sponsored by Literature Wales and judged by Gwyneth Lewis Scroll down to learn more about our thirteen shortlisted poets, read their poems, and don’t forget to register for your free ticket (at the bottom of the page) to join us at our online…
Poetry Wales at Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival
A hybrid poetry festival taking place from Friday 29th – Sunday 31st July Cardiff’s biggest poetry festival is back for 2022, and this time it’s hybrid! Our friends at Seren have been working hard to put together an amazing lineup of readings, launches, workshops and more this July, all centring around the theme of Wellness…
Wales Poetry Award 2021 Prizegiving Ceremony, recorded March 2022
Sponsored by Literature Wales If you weren’t able to make the live Zoom of our Wales Poetry Award 2021 Prizegiving, you can now watch a subtitled recording via our YouTube channel to hear all thirteen shortlisted poems read by their writers (and one by our editor Zoë Brigley, who stepped in for a poet on…