The Open House Competition

Congratulations to the 2016 winners, judged by Jonathan Edwards, author of My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren 2014) and winner of the Costa Poetry Award.

Winner

Jeremy Wikeley
Little Things

ABOUT THE JUDGE

Jonathan Edwards' first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) won the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His poems have won prizes in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition, the Ledbury Festival International Poetry Competition and the Basil Bunting Award, and appeared in a range of magazines, including The Interpreter's House, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review and The North. He works as a teacher.

Runner Up

Jinny Fisher
Transition

Shortlist

Sally Festing
What Wikipedia Doesn’t Say About My Father

Carole Bromley
Emporium

Marilyn Ricci
The Boy Next Door

Maeve Henry
The Reasons Why We Left

Katherine Stansfield
Please Don’t Take Me Away From Morrisons

Benjamin Palmer
Bellyache Jake

Helena Goddard
Morning Observance

Third

Natalie Thomas
Hurdy Gurdy

PAST winners

2015