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Competition, Poems and Hay Festival 2025.

Posted on April 15, 2025 by thehaywriters

While we await a few confirmations before announcing the winners of our recent Fiction Competition, there’s still time to enter our 2025 Poetry Competition. The judge this year is a talented Gareth Writer-Davies and the closing date for poems up to 40 lines long on any theme is midnight, Tuesday 22nd April. Anyone can submit poems and we look forward to reading your exciting creations… Continue reading →

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STOP PRESS 2025 HWC Poetry Competition now OPEN and Judge Announced

Posted on March 26, 2025 by thehaywriters

Submissions are now invited for the annual Hay Writers’ Circle Poetry Competition, and we are delighted to announce the judge for 2025 is the remarkable, Gareth Writer-Davies. The theme this year is entirely open and we hope to receive a wide variety of poems and poetry styles for this competition… Continue reading →

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The 2024 Richard Booth Prize for Non Fiction – Winner and Runner Up Entries

Posted on September 30, 2024 by thehaywriters

We are delighted to showcase the top two entrees as well as the judge’s comments of our most recent competition, The Richard Booth Prize for Non Fiction 2024…. Continue reading →

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WE HAVE A WINNER! Hay Writers’ Circle Poetry Prize 2024 – The Results.

Posted on July 9, 2024 by thehaywriters

We are delighted to announce the results of the Hay Writers Circle Poetry Competition 2024. This popular competition again received a good number of entries from both inside and outside Hay Writers’ Circle and we very much welcome external interest in all our writing competitions… Continue reading →

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Double Triumphs for Competitions Judges at the Welsh Book Awards 2024

Posted on July 6, 2024 by thehaywriters

Hay Writers’ Circle send many heartfelt congratulations to Kandance Siobhan Walker and Tom Bullough for their individual successes at the Wales Book of the Years Awards 2024 – English Language Books. Both have been competition judges for HWC in the past; Kandance was our judge for the Frances Copping Memorial Prize for Fiction 2020, and Tom was last years’ judge for the Richard Booth Prize for Non Fiction. Continue reading →

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A Festival, A Funeral and A Featured Writer.

Posted on June 10, 2024 by thehaywriters

Wasn’t it fun! Didn’t we all have a great time, saw an array of interesting events and bought lots and lots of terrific books! Continue reading →

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Count Down to Hay Festival 2024 and Poetry Performance Masterclass Review

Posted on May 15, 2024 by thehaywriters

Hay Festival 2024 – The Hay Writers Live!

You are warmly invited to a celebration of local writing as members of the Hay Writers’ Circle share some of their recent work. A smorgasbord of poetry, prose, vignettes and excerpts from longer works, this is a fabulous chance to enjoy readings and performances from some of Hay-on-Wye’s established writers and newest voices… Continue reading →

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News! News! News! Book Launch, Workshop and Hay Festival!

Posted on May 3, 2024 by thehaywriters

You are invited to come to a multi author book launch on Friday 10th May
10-12noon at North Books, 4 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DF
email jules@northbooks.co.uk for further details. Continue reading →

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Winner of the 2024 Frances Copping Prize for Fiction Announced!

Posted on April 8, 2024 by thehaywriters

We are excited to announce the results of our 2024 Frances Copping Memorial Prize for Fiction Competition, named in fond remembrance of our Lifetime President who sadly passed away in 2020.

This popular competition again received a good number of entries from both inside and outside Hay Writers’ Circle and we very much welcome external interest in all our writing competitions. Continue reading →

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Book Now – Performance Poetry Masterclass with Susan Evans

Posted on March 22, 2024 by thehaywriters

We are excited to advertise details of a forthcoming Poetry Performance Workshop on 16th April with the award winning Susan Evans… Continue reading →

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