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Hastings Book Festival 2024 - WINNERS! 

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who was on the 'Almost Made the Longlist', the Longlists, the shortlists and the WINNERS! We'll be back next year so keep an eye on the website.

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

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Poetry 1st Runner Up - The Ancestor Exhibition by Andy Breckenridge

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

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Short Story Winner - A Song in an Adult Language by Ekaterina Kakurina

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Short Story 1st Runner Up - Of Scarves and Flowers by Mary Byrne

 

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

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Sussex Prize sponsored by New Writing South

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

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

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LGBT+ Prize sponsored by Starcroft Farm Cabins - 

 

Winner - Laundrettes by Richard Woulfe

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Further information about Starcroft Cabins can be found https://www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/

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And New Writing South - https://www.newwritingsouth.com/

 

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