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The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2019

The Frogmore Poetry Prize is now in its 33rd year. Adjudicator John O'Donoghue will read all entries.

The winner of this year's prize will receive £250 and a two-year subscription to The Frogmore Papers. The first and second runners-up will receive £75 and £50 respectively and a year’s subscription to The Frogmore Papers. Shortlisted poets will receive copies of selected Frogmore Press publications.

Previous winners of the Prize have been: David Satherley, Caroline Price, Bill Headdon, John Latham, Diane Brown, Tobias Hill, Mario Petrucci, Gina Wilson, Ross Cogan, Joan Benner, Ann Alexander, Gerald Watts, Katy Darby, David Angel , Howard Wright, Julie-ann Rowell, Arlene Ang, Peter Marshall, Gill Andrews, A K S Shaw, Sharon Black, Emily Wills, Lesley Saunders, Sarah Barr and Eve Jackson.

Adjudicator John O’Donoghue is an author, poet and journalist. His publications include Sectioned: A Life Interrupted (John Murray, 2009), Brunch Poems (Waterloo Press, 2009) and Fools & Mad (Waterloo Press, 2014). In 2016 he won the Irish Post Short Story Competition and was awarded a Brookleaze Grant by the Royal Society of Literature.

Closing date
Fri 31 May 2019
Entry fee
£3 per poem