Competition Results

BUILD AFRICA POETRY COMPETITION

We are pleased to announce the results of the Build Africa (Excel for Charity) Poetry Competition 2010.

This competition has raised a net amount of £131.70 for the charity Build Africa. This means that by the time the disbursals on this competition are complete, Excel for Charity would have raised a total of £418.47 for charity and paid out £780.00 in prize money.

Third Prize winner is Margaret Eddershaw writing from Greece with the poem "Let Him Without Sin".

Second Prize winner is UK poet Jeni Williams with "Because the Earth Opened."

and the winner of the First Prize is...from Italy,

GABRIEL GRIFFIN-HALL with "A' Freak Yer!"

For full results including titles of Highly Commended Poems click here.

Or to read the Judge's Report click here

WINNERS OF PAST COMPETITIONS

MOLLY CASE Molly is a writer studying at university in Bath and is an active performance poet around the South West area. She won the First Prize in the second Excel for Charity Poetry Competition in aid of the Psychiatry Research Trust. with Night Shift on the Dementia Floor.

ROGER ELKIN Won the first Excel for Charity Poetry Competition which was in aid of Diversity House with Blue Hyacinths. Elkin is a well-known name in the poetry world. A former editor of Envoi and author of several poetry books including Points of Reference (1996), Blood Brothers (2005), Rites of Passing (2006) and No Laughing Matter (2007). He lectures occasionally on modern poetry at Barlaston Wedgwood College and has won many international prizes.