Competitions
INDIGO SPRING POETRY PRIZE 2026
NOW CLOSED
PRIZES
1st £250; 2nd £100; 3rd £50 ... plus magazine publication in either Reach Poetry or The Dawntreader
OUR JUDGE
VICTORIA GATEHOUSE
Victoria Gatehouse is a Zoologist, award-winning poet and children’s writer.
Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC radio and she has been widely published in magazines including The Rialto and Mslexia. Her pamphlet The Mechanics of Love (Smith|Doorstop) was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy.
Victoria has won, and been placed in, many competitions and is also a three-times winner of The Poetry News Members’ Competition. She was highly commended for the Gingko Prize, 2023. Her Indigo Dreams collection The Hawthorn Bride was published in 2024.
LONGLIST
A field guide to the chakras
A Perfect Noun
Alexa Develops Dementia
All the Right Ingredients
All the Wild Witches
Allegorical
Badbea
Black Rain
Carols at the Post Office
Chiaroscuro
Courgette Blossom and Brie Tart
Gravedigger
Mars and Venus United by Love
Mermaid’s Tears
Old man Crazy to Paint
No, Nigel, I do not want your feathers
Swan on the Wensum
Templemeads Station, November 2025
The Day We Wrote No Poems
The porch
To Edna St Vincent Millay
Traces of an Orchard
FINAL RESULTS WILL BE SHOWN HERE BY FIRST OF JUNE
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Thank you.
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