Sentinel Annual Writing Competitions | International annual open poetry and short story competitions

Organised by Sentinel Poetry Movement – the international community of writers and artists

…founded December 2002

Sentinel Annual Poetry & Short Story Competitions 2015

We are pleased to announce the results of the poetry competition 2015 judged by Afam Akeh and short story competition judged by Alex Keegan

-POETRY-

Commended Poems

Al McClimens – Keats on the Moon

Mandy Pannett – Wings

Audrey Ardern-Jones – Sight Beyond

Anne M Carson – Vintage Song

Heather Combe – De Motu Cordis (On the Motion of the Heart)

Eithne Cullen – The Whisper of Stars

Mary Rozmus-West – Upon a Night

Seán Street – Liverpool Bay

Ruth Calway – Homing Bird

Sharon Black – Naming the Colour

Highly Commended Poems

Aelred Down – Redacted

Noel Williams – Overgrown

A C Clarke – In the Walled Garden

Oonah V Joslin – Toronto Girl

Catherine Atherton – Austral

Third Prize

Philip Burton – Garments

Second Prize

Noel Williams – Return to Kabul, 1990

First Prize

Diane Cook – Strix Aluco

-SHORT STORIES-

Commended stories

Colin Watts – Grapefruit Moon

Dianne Bown-Wilson – Bean Counter

D.R.D. Bruton – Breathless

Highly Commended

Marie Chambers – In the Kingdom of Complaint.

D.R.D. Bruton – Thirteen Wedding Dresses

Chris Heyward – Getting Started

Third Prize

Paul McDonald – Touched for the Very First Time

Second Prize

Lynne Voyce – Star-Gazing With the Green Man

First Prize

Daniel Knibb – Extractions