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Past Winners

2011 Poetry Competition Winners

First Prize: £500.00 – The Causation of the Virgin Mother in a Tipperary Barn by Terry Jones
Second Prize: £250.00 – Honesty in Winter by Linda Burnett
Third Prize: £125.00 – The Chicken, The Egg and My Sister by Jen Campbell

High Commendation Prizes:

£25.00 to STEPHEN DEMPSEY for ‘On Balance’
£25.00 to LYNN ROBERTS for ‘Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed’
£25.00 to HARRY BATTY for ‘Goose Green’
£25.00 to PAUL GROVES for ‘From on High’
£25.00 to GERALDINE PAINE for ‘Her Riley’

The 8 Prize-winning poems above were published in Sentinel Champions magazine #9, February 2012.

A collection of the winning poems and short stories from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly competitions (July 2011) and the winning poems from the Sentinel Annual Poetry Competition 2011.

Edited by Nnorom Azuonye

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2010 Poetry Competition Winners

First Prize: £250.00 – Filming "The Beheading of Daniel Pearl" by Christian Ward

Second Prize: £125.00 – Standing with Oliver in Oliver’s Garden by Derek Sellen

Third Prize: £70.00 – A Small Glow by Gary Smillie

These poems are published in the Sentinel Annual Literature Anthology.

A collection of poems, short stories and plays edited by Unoma Azuah, Amanda Sington-Williams and Nnorom Azuonye.

ISBN 978-0-9568101-0-6

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