COMPETITIONS

The festival has featured three competitions since its inception: an international poetry competition, an erotic fiction short story and a short story set in Bournemouth.   We hope, in future, to publish an anthology featuring some of the best entries.  Our judges have been:

Mitzi Szereto, leading erotic fiction writer, anthologist and creative writing tutor described as "erotica's spiciest personality".
Keith Bennett, the award-winning and published poet, playwright, storyteller, creative writing tutor, trustee of the Poetry Society and founder of the Dorset Literature Network and National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE). 
Ian Burton, the Bournemouth-based writer and creative writing tutor.

Past Competition Winners 

 

David Jones presents prize to Jason Hazael,           Gill Kaye Editor of Muse magazine with
winner of 2005 International Poetry Competition    Gillian Wellby winner of the 2006 Short Story Competition