The third Poetry Competition awards ceremony at Chesham Town Hall
Prizewinners, judges and honoured guests.
Ben Batten presents Jasmine Kowalski with an award for her poem Happy in the 11 - 18 yrs category.
Leeanne Parks presents Richard de Silva with the HP5 award for his poem The Forge
2025 poetry competition awards ceremony
Karen Luke gives Connie Sheen her prize for the best poem in the under 11s category for the poem Sense of Self.
Jon Bickley hands over the award for best poem from the rest of the world Ma Brither's Garden by Jenette Fenton.
Two poets
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Chesham Literary Festival
The Chesham Literary Festival Short Story Competition will be announcing its winners 28/2/25.
The 3rd annual Chesham Literary Festival Poetry Competition opens on 1/3/25.
See https://www.facebook.com/CheshamLiteraryFestival/ for full details.
Chesham Literary Festival
The first event run by the Chesham Literary Festival was a Poetry Competition. Steered by Jon Bickley, Ben Batten and Mark Jackson-Hancock and run in the Spring of 2023 there were three categories, Chesham resident, Under 11 and the rest of the world. The event was so successful we will be running another poetry competition in 2024.
Winner
The winner of the Chesham resident category and the Rest of the world category was Valerie Jack for her poem To the Eastern Edge with Mother.
Judge's choice
The Judge's choice prize was won by Karen Luke for her poem Dog's Bone.
Podcast - Poetry Competition
Podcast - Poetry Competition
Podcast - Poetry Competition
Invisible Folk have made a series of podcasts for the Chesham Literary Festival. https://invisiblefolkclub.libsyn.com/chesham-literary-festival-poetry-competition-2023
Hear the poets read their winning entries here.
Podcast - Emily Townsend
Podcast - Poetry Competition
Podcast - Poetry Competition
Emily was a commended poet in the 2023 poetry competition and presents some of her short stories in this podcast.
https://invisiblefolkclub.libsyn.com/chesham-literary-festival-emily-townsend
Podcasts - 20 Sonnets
Podcast - Poetry Competition
Podcasts - 20 Sonnets
Jon and Ben discuss the art of sonnet writing with examples from their writing project for 2023 - Summer Sonnets. This is a two part podcast.