AWARDS

Rosie’s poems have won or been shortlisted in the following competitions

* Commended Hippocrates Open 2024
‘Less in Love with Things of the Spirit’ and ‘Vigil’

* Commended National Poetry Competition 2023
’The Boisterous Sobbings of Margery Kempe’ judged by Greta Stoddart & Michael Symmons Roberts

* Commended Winchester 2022
‘Letter to Sharon Olds’ judged by Jo Bell

* 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