2024 Wigtown Poetry Prizes Shortlist
We're thrilled to announce the shortlist of Wigtown Poetry Prizes 2024
Wigtown International Poetry Prize
Wandering Star, Jane Frank
Cracked, Magi Gibson
The Obituary of Megan Boyd, Louise Greig
Homosexual, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Matter, Kristen Mears
Inversion Layers, Jilly O'Brien
Wigtown Gaelic Poetry Prize
Bana-bhuidsich Allt a’ Mhuilinn, Ceitidh Campbell
Fianais, Rònaigh an Taibh, Rody Gorman
Pràiseach, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Immram, Taylor Strickland
Crìoch cànain, Mona Claudia Wagner
Wigtown Scots Poetry Prize
Loch Awe, Lesley Benzie
A Black Ex-Miner Caas Doon the Miners' Raws, Robert Duncan
Sit In Yir Ain Licht, Rob McClure
Karneval, Shane Strachan
Whaun She is Done, Lynn Valentine
Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize
I Go To The Devil, Sarah Gibbons
wOmen’s wOrk, Jennifer Harrison
The Broken Smashed Rubble of Everything I Owned, Wes Lee
Dumfries & Galloway Fresh Voice Award
Wednesday Afternoons: Agnew Park, Jane Fuller
In Between Places, Suzannah Goss
Watery Limits, Diane Schofield
The winners will be announced at an award ceremony at Wigtown Book Festival
Join us for an evening of readings and refreshments, celebrating the best in contemporary poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages.