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We are pleased to announce the launch of our 2024 poetry competition.
We encourgae you to enter onine, but don’t worry, you can still Download the 2024 Competition entry form to submit your entries by post if you prefer.
Entries close 29th February 2024!
Results for the 2023 competions are in!!
| 1st Prize | Elizabeth Fortescue provides her numbers for the Factory Inspector’s Report, 1834 by Di Slaney | Prize £300 | Read Judges Report |
| 2nd Prize | Over you by Mike Mackillop-Hall | Prize £150 | Read Judges Report |
| 3rd Prize | Remedies by Camilla Lambert | Prize £75 | Read Judges Report |
See the full results and report on the 2023 results page!
Results for the 2022 competions are in!!
| 1st Prize | The Parcel by Maggie Davison | Prize £300 | Read Judges Report |
| 2nd Prize | The Art of Laundry by Miriam Patrick | Prize £150 | Read Judges Report |
| 3rd Prize | The Housekeeper by Doreen Hinchliffe | Prize £75 | Read Judges Report |
See the full results and report on the 2022 results page!
Results for the 2021 competions are in!!
| 1st Prize | McGredy’s Roses 1972 by Glen Wilson | Prize £200 | Read Judges Report |
| 2nd Prize | Uninvited Guest by Caroline Bracken | Prize £100 | Read Judges Report |
| 3rd Prize | I Told You There was a Wolf by Dave Kurley | Prize £50 | Read Judges Report |
See the full results and report on the 2021results page!
The Results of this years competition have been announced.
Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to att those that took part.
View the wining poems on the Results Page
The Annual Presentation of the Chanctonbury Cup and prizes for the 2017 Competition will take place at Pulborough Village Hall on Saturday 30th September at 1.45pm for a 2.00pm start.
Winners will be reading their work and the Judges Report will be included. In addition there will be showcase readings from other Slipstream and Silk Road Writers Groups and music will be provided by both ‘Rattlebag’ and Paul Ward. Entry is free and there will be book stalls for authors works and second hand book the latter to raise funds to meet the costs of hall hire.
See the competition results here
Entries are now open for our The Sussex Chanctonbury Cup 2017 Poetry Competition.
Download the 2017 Competition entry form to submit your entries. Entries close 15th May 2017
Please complete the PDF, print it and send it to us with you poems and cheque for entry costs.
Please see our competition page for full details.
Binstead Arts Festival announce their 2017 Poetry Competition to be judged by Clare Best. Closing date 20th March 2017. Original unpublished poems are invited on the theme ‘Harvest’.
For full details and entry forms go to:-
We will be holding a competition early in 2017….watch this space!
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