2024 Wigtown Poetry Prizes Shortlist

15 August 2024

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.

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