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Richard Booth Prize 2026 2nd & 3rd Placed Pieces, Plus Something from the Archives.

Posted on August 12, 2026 by thehaywriters

This week we are delighted to showcase the 2nd and 3rd place entries of our most recent competition, The Richard Booth Prize for Non Fiction 2026. To see this year’s results in full, please click HERE… Continue reading →

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The Richard Booth Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 Results, and Summer Lunch at The Swan Hotel, Hay-on-Wye.

Posted on July 31, 2026 by thehaywriters

We are delighted to announce the results of our annual Non-Fiction competition.

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.

Our memorial prize, named in tribute to Richard Booth, the self-proclaimed “King of Hay”, who among many literary interests, was a keen supporter of the Hay Writers’ Circle. He sadly passed away in 2019, still in love with books, writers and his beautiful kingdom of Hay-on-Wye…. Continue reading →

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