Wigtown Poetry Prizes

📣📣📣Judges for the 2025 Wigtown Poetry Prizes have been announced. Read more, including the judges' comments, here - wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/wigtown-p… Thanks to @LeughLeabhar @thedarkhorsemag @moniackmhor and @Saltire_Society

This is always one of my favourite typesetting & design projects of the year: luxuriantly austere & beautiful production values & printed on gorgeous paper stock; the pamphlet as artwork in service to the poems.

Poets of #dumfriesandgalloway, here's one just for you. The Dumfries and Galloway Fresh Voice Award is now open for submissions. The winner will receive a tailored mentoring package and a retreat at @moniackmhor writing centre. Find out more at wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi…

Enter your poetry collection into the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize for a chance to see your work in print. First prize: Publication of the winning pamphlet. Deadline 7 May Find out more at wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi… Supported by @thedarkhorsemag

We're looking for new talent in #scots poetry - Wigtown Scots Poetry Prize is now open for submissions. £500 first prize £200 to the runner-up Deadline 7 May Find out more at wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi… Supported by @Saltire_Society

Calling all #scottishgaelic writers! Entries are now open for Wigtown Gaelic Poetry Prize ✍️ £500 first prize £200 to the runner-up Deadline 7 May Find out more at wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi… Supported by @LeughLeabhar #poetry #WritingCommunity

Wigtown International Poetry Prize ✍️ £1500 first prize £200 to the runner-up Deadline 7 May 2025 Find out more at wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi… With kind support from @StAnzaPoetry and @ByLeavesWeLive #poetry #WritingCommunity

The 20th Wigtown Poetry Prizes are now open for submissions! Find out how to enter here - wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi… Supported by @LeughLeabhar @Saltire_Society @thedarkhorsemag @StAnzaPoetry @moniackmhor and @ByLeavesWeLive

Homosexual I need this word, to recount the fall of dusk, the progressive shift of the light suffusing the skyline, lilting into lilac. The silence of that night where nothing but his name reverberates inside my hollow mind, of the weeping inability to speak it. Read more of mine and @MagiGibson's co-winning Wigtown poems, here, as well as a selection of works that triumphed across the categories. @ByLeavesWeLive @LeughLeabhar @FedWritersScot @scotlit @LitScotland @EdinCityofLit @WigtownBookFest @WigtownPrize

The winning entries of the 2024 Wigtown Poetry Prizes are now available to read online - wigtownbookfestival.com/library Congratulations again to the winners and runners-up. It's been a privilege to uncover such a rich trove of work.

Thank you @thedarkhorsemag for supporting the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize and for setting the beautiful new pamphlet by winner @GibbonsSE

A huge thanks to the supporters of Wigtown Poetry Prizes. @LeughLeabhar, @Saltire_Society, @moniackmhor and @ByLeavesWeLive, thank you for helping us support poets and champion Scotland's Indigenous languages.

Very happy to be one of the @WigtownPrize winners @WigtownBookFest . This is my little book, which I’m so proud off. Congratulations to all the winning and shortlisted poets of the five prizes x

Well I got no further than the shortlist of the Scots category of the Wigtown poetry prize but I got to read in this fab pink-lit building in a town full of bookshops and literary goings on @WigtownBookFest @WigtownPrize & I can’t really complain having won the McLellan prize 😉

The winners of Wigtown Poetry Prizes 2024 were revealed yesterday. A huge congratulations to the winners and runners-up. Read the award winners, judges quotes and words from the supporters of Wigtown Poetry Prizes here wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/wigtown-p…

Really thrilled and honoured to be on the shortlist for the Alistair Reid pamphlet prize - one of the @WigtownPrize s. And to be on a list with so many amazing poets - hope to meet some of you in person @WigtownBookFest ! wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi…

Delighted to be on the shortlist for the Scots category of the Wigtown Poetry Prize. Huge congratulations to those shortlisted @WigtownPrize wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi…

Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist of Wigtown Poetry Prizes. Read the full list here - wigtownpoetryprize.com/poetry-competi…

We're delighted to reveal the judges for the 2024 Wigtown Poetry Prizes. Read the full announcement, including what each judge is looking for in a winning poem, here: wigtownbookfestival.com/blog/wigtown-p…

Including an event with Wigtown Poetry Prize winners ⬇️ Have a look and book your tickets!