13th March 2023 Jennifer Wong and the Competition Winners
This event will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our home page 10 days before the event. Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, she is the author of several collections including Goldfish...
13th December 2021 Caleb Parkin and Cat Woodward
Events begin at 7.30pm on Zoom. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link on our home page 10 days before the date. Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, won second prize in the National Poetry Competition 2016, the Winchester Poetry Prize 2017 and other...
14th June 2021 – Rishi Dastidar and Jill Abram.
This event will take place through Zoom. See Home Page from ten days before the event to book. A poem from Rishi Dastidar’s debut Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A pamphlet, the break of a wave, was published by Offord Road Books in 2019....
Winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes: The Café Writers Competition, from its title implies a local manner, yet the entries were truly international. I loved judging this...
2017 Open Poetry Competition Winners
The Winner We are delighted to announce the Winner of the 2017 Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Liz Berry, is Tammy Armstrong with her poem Road Salt Dome. Road Salt Dome after Paul Farley Off the highway, out of the way like ant hills, or bee...
2016 open poetry winners
We are delighted to announce the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition Winners 2016 Our judge Andrew McMillan has done sterling work and we have the results for the Café Writers Poetry Competition. Judge's report and winning poems to follow soon! There were very close to...
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13th March 2023 Jennifer Wong and the Competition Winners
This event will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our home page 10 days before the event. Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, she is the author of several collections including Goldfish...
13th December 2021 Caleb Parkin and Cat Woodward
Events begin at 7.30pm on Zoom. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link on our home page 10 days before the date. Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, won second prize in the National Poetry Competition 2016, the Winchester Poetry Prize 2017 and other...
14th June 2021 – Rishi Dastidar and Jill Abram.
This event will take place through Zoom. See Home Page from ten days before the event to book. A poem from Rishi Dastidar’s debut Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A pamphlet, the break of a wave, was published by Offord Road Books in 2019....
Winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes: The Café Writers Competition, from its title implies a local manner, yet the entries were truly international. I loved judging this...
2017 Open Poetry Competition Winners
The Winner We are delighted to announce the Winner of the 2017 Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Liz Berry, is Tammy Armstrong with her poem Road Salt Dome. Road Salt Dome after Paul Farley Off the highway, out of the way like ant hills, or bee...