31 May is the deadline for entries to this year’s (26th) Frogmore Poetry Prize, adjudicated by Janet Sutherland. Full details at www.frogmorepress.co.uk
Previous winners of the Prize include
Katy Darby, whose debut novel
The Whore’s Asylum was recently published by Penguin;
Tobias Hill, author of four collections of poetry, whose most recent novel is
The Hidden (2009);
Sharon Black, whose debut collection
To Know Bedrock was published by Pindrop Press last year;
Ann Alexander, who has gone on to publish three collections of poems;
Mario Petrucci, author of numerous volumes, most recently
the waltz in my blood (2011);
Gill Andrews, who was subsequently shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Prize;
Howard Wright, whose debut collection
King of Country was published by Blackstaff Press;
Julie-ann Rowell, author of
Letters North (Brodie Press), whose short fiction was longlisted for the Asham Award in 2006;
Gina Wilson, who went on to win the Lace Open Poetry Competition in 1999;
John Latham, who has published four collections of poems with Peterloo; and
Caroline Price, whose third collection
Wishbone was published by Shoestring Press.
This year’s winner will receive a cheque for 200 guineas, a two-year subscription to
The Frogmore Papers and publication in the celebratory 80th issue of the magazine and on the Frogmore Press website.
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The second event in the series will feature Frogmore Managing Editor and editor of the Languages of Colour anthology Alexandra Loske delivering a lecture on … languages of colour. This will take place on Tuesday 20 November, same time, same place.
Miles Salter
is a writer, songwriter and storyteller based in 
