The 2025 Poetry Competition is now closed.
You can read the winning poems here.
For this year’s competition, we invited poems on the theme of 'caring, family and community'.
Our judge this is Cheryl Moskowitz – a writer, poet, creative translator and educator, as well as a former carer.
If you would like to read the winning poems from our previous creative writing competitions, click here.
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