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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

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1st Runner Up The Ancestor Exhibition by Andy Breckenridge

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

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Short Story

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Winner A Song in an Adult Language by Ekaterina Kakurina

 

1st Runner Up Of Scarves and Flowers by Mary Byrne

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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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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 our sponsors


• Starcroft Cabins www.starcroftfarm.co.uk​

 

• New Writing South www.newwritingsouth.com

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