POETRY AWARDS

Rosie’s poems have won or been shortlisted in competitions

Commended Poets and Players 2022
’The Boisterous Sobbings of Margery Kempe’ judged by Kim Moore

3rd prize Kent & Sussex 2022
‘John Donne Dreams his Still-Born Son lives’
judged by Richard Skinner

3rd Prize Acumen 2021
‘Ancrene Wisse’
judged by Mimi Khalvati & Martyn Crucefix

Commended Grey Hen 2021
‘I ask Forgiveness of my Body’ judged by Merryn Williams & Pat Winslow

‘Light Makes It Easy’
1st prize Teignmouth 2021, judged by Helen Ivory

3rd Prize and Commended Acumen 2021, judged by Mimi Kalvati & Martyn Crucefix

Commended Hippocrates Open 2021, judged by Anne Barnard

Poetry News Summer 2021, Poetry Society, judged by Jenny Lewis

‘It’s Time We Found A Different Metaphor’
Joint 3rd prize Hippocrates Open Competition 2020

’Where Bluebells are Thickest’
1st prize Poetry Space 2019,
judged by Caroline Price

’Aloneness is a Many-Headed Bird’
1st prize Hedgehog Pamphlet Competition
(with Dawn Gorman) 2019,
judged by Nigel Kent & Sarah Thomson

’The Artist’s View of Surgery’ 
Commended in the Hippocrates Open Competition, 2019, judged by Kate Adie 

'Ode to the Snowdrop’
Commended at Shepton Mallet Poetry Festival 2019, judged by David Morley    

‘One Little Roome an Everywhere’
1st prize in Wells Poetry Festival 2018, judged by Terry Gifford

‘From Langport to Muchelney’
Hilly Cansdale Award & Public Vote Wells Poetry Festival 2018, judged by Terry Gifford

‘An Anchorite Laments’
Highly commended in Winchester Poetry Festival 2018, judged by Liz Berry

‘What Is Beautiful I Do Not Know’
2nd prize in Torbay Poetry Festival 2018, judged by Danielle Hope

‘The Human Form Divine’
2nd prize in Frogmore Papers competition 2018, judged by Janet Sutherland

‘The Heaven that Runs Through Everything’, 
First Prize, £2,500, in the Cookham Festival
Stanley Spencer Poetry Competition, 2017,
judged by Professor Peter Robinson, Jane Draycott, Carolyn Leder

‘A Ward Sister Remembers the Spencers’
Third Prize in the Hippocrates Open Competition, 2017,
judged by Jackie Kay 

‘A Charm of Goldfinch’
First Prize in the Berkshire Music & Arts Festival, 2017, judged by Claire Dyer

‘When He Teaches Her’
Second Prize in the Berkshire Music & Arts Festival, 2017, judged by Claire Dyer

‘I'll Never Live In a Lighthouse’
First Prize in the Berkshire Music & Arts Festival, 2016, judged by Lesley Saunders 

‘John Donne Arriving in Heaven’
Joint First Prize in the Bath Poetry Café competition, 2015, judged by Rachel Boast

‘Spoons’
Hilly Cansdale Award, Wells Poetry Competition 2015, judged by Peter Oswald

‘The Light Box’
Second Prize in the Battered Moons Poetry Competition 2015, judged by Pascale Petit & Christina Newton

‘Mary Shelley, Hyde Park, 1850’
Highly Commended at Torbay, 2015, judged by John Greening

‘First Breakfast’
Shortlisted in the Bridport Poetry Competition, 2015, judged by Roger McGough

‘Night Sky’
Shortlisted for the Bradford on Avon Festival Poetry competition 2014, judged by Martin Malone

‘The Lovers’ Exchange’
Second prize in the Havant Festival Poetry Competition, 2013, judged by Wendy Klein

‘Resurrection’
Second Prize in the Acumen & Bath Poetry Café competition 2102, judged by Patricia Oxley

‘Persephone’
Third Prize in the Ambit 200 Poetry Competition, 2010