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November

Mary Anne Smith Sellen

'The Shape of our Lives' was longlisted in the Indigo Dreams first collection competition.

October

Mary Anne Smith

'Autumn Leaves (for Louis MacNeice)', has been accepted for Wildfire Words online anthology on the theme of Leaves and Leaving.

Derek Sellen

Won the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year prize with The Tailor

Gary Studley

Second place in the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year with Akin

September

Amal Garnham

'Smothering Blankets' will be included in the 2023 Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio and the poem 'Wilderness' was longlisted for Canterbury Poet of the Year

August

Derek Sellen

The poem 'The Night Bus' was awarded first prize in Poets Meet Painters 2023

The haiku 'Jaunty Red Rabbit' won first prize in the Poetry on the Lake Haiku Competition 2023

The poem 'Attrition' was highly commended in the John McGivering Kipling Society Poetry Competition

Greta Ross

Greta has had her poem 'The Long-armed Woman of the Waters' accepted for publication in the Winter edition of the Dawntreader magazine.

July

Luigi Marchini

Luigi has had a poem commended in 'A Slim Volume of One’s Own' a poetry collection competition.

June

Luigi Marchini

Luigi has had a poem, Amalfi by Night, published in Crime, an anthology of poetry and short stories

April

Greta Ross

Greta won the Poetry Kit 2023 International Poetry Competition with her poem Rewilding the lounge

Derek Sellen

Derek has two poems in an anthology called 'Turning Point' (Richmond Arts). The poems are The Limits of Serendipity and Passage of the Night.

Mary Anne Smith

Mary has a poem, Stone and Ash - in this: Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize 2021 Anthology (Wordsmithery)

March

Mary Anne Smith

Mary has a poem, Tracts on a City Life, published in the anthology Circle of Six