Jul 3, 2026 | 3 - Commendations
Anne’s poem ‘Some sisters use the word harmonious’ has won Second Prize in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Poetry Competition 2026, judged by members of Kathryn’s writing group Circle Writers. The judges described the poem as ‘a linguistically and phonetically...
Apr 30, 2026 | 3 - Commendations
Anne’s poem ‘Walking the Ypres Salient with My Brothers’ has been Commended in the George Crabbe Poetry Competition 2026, and published in ’12 Rivers’, the magazine of the Suffolk Poetry Society. Paul Stephenson, the competition judge, described the poem...
May 28, 2025 | 3 - Commendations
Anne’s prose poem ‘Runger’ was long-listed in an international literary competition, The Plaza Prose Poetry Prize, judged by US poet Nin Andrews. theplazaprizes.com
Feb 12, 2025 | 3 - Commendations, 5 - Other News
Anne has been Highly Commended in the 2025 Telegraph Poetry Competition on the theme of ‘Time’. Her poem ‘Herewith coach timetable’ was described by judges Tristram Fane Saunders and Lucy Denyer as a ‘touching family portrait’. ...
Oct 4, 2024 | 1 - Publications, 3 - Commendations, 5 - Other News
Anne’s sequence Letters to Lisbon has won First Prize in the Long Poem Category of the Second Light Poetry Competition, judged by Wendy French. The five epistolary poems are addressed to Lisbon, where Anne lived for several months before the pandemic enforced an early...
