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2024 winners

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who was on the 'Almost Made the Longlist', the Longlists, the shortlists and the WINNERS!

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poetry

Winner The vacillations of the scholar Wu Mi (㕦宓) 1894-19782 by Helen Wing

 

1st Runner Up The Ancestor Exhibition by Andy Breckenridge

 

2nd Runner Up Instructions For Post-Menopause Facial Peel by Dawn Rhodes Shaw

Short Story

Winner A Song in an Adult Language by Ekaterina Kakurina

 

1st Runner Up Of Scarves and Flowers by Mary Byrne

 

2nd Runner Up Once Upon a Time in Bulverhythe by Susan Gilbert

Sussex Prize

Sponsored by New Writing South

Winner (Short Story) Once Upon a Time in Bulverhythe by Susan Gilbert

 

Sussex Prize Winner (Poetry) Instructions For Post-Menopause Facial Peel by Dawn Rhodes Shaw

LGBT+ Prize

Sponsored by Starcroft Farm Cabins

Winner Laundrettes by Richard Woulfe

Further information about our sponsors


• Starcroft Cabins www.starcroftfarm.co.uk

 

• New Writing South www.newwritingsouth.com

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