Wigtown Poetry Competition Winners
Have Now Been Notified !
Winning poems will be published in the Sunday Herald on 27th April 2008 and a full list of winning and commended poems will be published on this site on 5th May 2008, after the prizegiving event.
Wigtown Poetry Competition 2007/2008
Scotland's National Poetry Competition
In association with the Scottish Poetry Library
and the Sunday Herald.
1st Prize £2500.00
2nd Prize £1000.00
3rd Prize £500.00
Ten supplementary prizes of £50.00 each
Judge: Robert Crawford
Gaelic Prize £1000.00
In association with the Gaelic Books Council.
Gaelic Judge: Anne Frater
Enquiries to poetrycomp@wigtownbookfestival.com.
The Wigtown Poetry Competition is the largest poetry competition in Scotland, attracting in the region of 2000 entries. The first three winning poems will be published in the Sunday Herald, and all the winning and commended poems will be published in a special anthology.
Closing date: 5.00pm Friday January 25th 2008
Winners will be notified by Monday 7th April 2008
Winners announced in the Sunday Herald on Sunday 27th April 2008
Prizegiving will take place in Wigtown on Saturday 3rd May 2008
Winning poems will be on the Wigtown Book Festival website from 12th May.
….and if you want to check up on last year’s winners, why not order a copy of our new anthology featuring the winning and commended poems from The Wigtown Poetry Competition 06/07?
 Judge - Robert Crawford
We are thrilled to present Robert Crawford as this year’s judge. Robert grew up in Lanarkshire and has published poetry in English and in Scots. His 'Selected Poems' (Cape, 2005) draws on six earlier collections. A new collection of his poems Full Volume, will be published by Cape in April 2007. With Simon Armitage he edited 'The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945' (1998) and with Mick Imlah he edited 'The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse' (2000). In 2007 he published 'Scotland's Books' (Penguin), a one-volume history of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. He is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews and has judged several poetry competitions, including the UK National Poetry Competition.
 Gaelic Judge - Anne Frater
Anne Frater was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis Scottish Gaelic is her first language. Her poems were first published in Gairm magazine (1986) while she was a student at Glasgow University. In 1995 she was awarded a PhD for her thesis on Scottish Gaelic Women’s Poetry up to 1750. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, and in her own collection, Fon t-Slige (Under the Shell) which was published by Gairm in 1995. She is currently working at Lews Castle College in Stornoway as a lecturer on the UHIMI Gaelic degree course. She identifies the main themes of her poetry as love, language and politics.
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Wigtown Poetry Competition
Prizegiving Lunch
Bladnoch Distillery - Saturday 12th May 2008
Come and celebrate the success of the third Wigtown Poetry Competition. Hear judge Robert Crawford and Galeic judge Anne Frater talk about their choices, and hear the winning poets read their poems.
A limited number of tickets are on sale to the public.
Tickets £12.50 from the Wigtown Book festival on 01988 402036.
In order to give final numbers to caterers, tickets are only on sale until Thursday 24th April 2008.
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