Well, I have to say that, this our Third and FINAL Little Black Book Competition, truly brought out some fantastic entries and I am so pleased to read them all, you’ll never know what a welcome thing to have to do it has been these last few weeks.
But to the point and the reality of all these nice things is that I had to cut them down to a Longlist, which I share in no particularly useful or indicative order:
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- Alex Reed
- Amelia Numa Hopkins
- Barbara Cumbers
- Carmella de Keyser
- Chris Hemingway
- Daniela Nunnari
- Elise Yvon
- Fay Proctor
- Gill Horitz
- Henry Blaydon
- Jack Thacker
- Jana Synek
- Jay Wilson
- Karen Pierce Gonzalez & Marcelle Newbold
- Kate Rigby
- Lakshmi Vinayan Subha
- Lydia Harris
- Mary-Clare Newsham
- Matt Thomas
- Michael Pullman
- Miriam Otto
- Olivia Todd
- Richard Hough
- Robert Paisley
- Roger Bloor
- Roger Waldron
- Ruth Hill
- Stephen Bone
- Tim Fellows
- Vladimir Milojkovity
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Congratulations to all who made the Longlist, and many thanks to everybody else that took part in this and the other two LBB Competitions – it has been a really special thing and made my life so complicated and challenging.
The Winners and Shortlisted Poets will be revealed on 28th August 2025 and winning entries will see their Little Black Books published this year